Floun­der­ing in the wake of an FDA ap­proval, Achao­gen makes a sec­ond round of deep cuts to stay alive

Suc­cess can be cost­ly in this busi­ness. Par­tial suc­cess can be a dis­as­ter.

Just 3 months af­ter Achao­gen ex­ecs took out the bud­get ax and whacked around a quar­ter of its work force, with its R&D chief, CSO and CFO leav­ing in the ex­o­dus, the CEO has to cut much more. The goal now is to slash over­all costs 35% to 40% at the an­tibi­otics de­vel­op­er while post­ing a ‘for sale’ sign in the win­dow as the com­pa­ny con­sid­ers all op­tions in a scram­ble to stay afloat.

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