From part­ner to knight in shin­ing ar­mor: Cas­tle Creek to buy Fi­bro­cell

In April, Cas­tle Creek swooped in to part­ner with the em­bat­tled gene and cell ther­a­py Fi­bro­cell to shep­herd its lead gene ther­a­py for a type of “but­ter­fly” dis­ease in­to late-stage de­vel­op­ment. Now, the New Jer­sey-based der­ma­tol­ogy com­pa­ny is ac­quir­ing its part­ner in a deal worth $63.3 mil­lion.

Penn­syl­va­nia-based Fi­bro­cell last year ini­ti­at­ed a re­view of strate­gic al­ter­na­tives, in­clud­ing a sale.

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