Low sales, high cost: Melin­ta slash­es HQ re­search staff as it strug­gles to grow an­tibi­otics rev­enue

Look to Melin­ta Ther­a­peu­tics for the lat­est sign of eco­nom­ic trou­ble in the an­tibi­otics field.

Ex­act­ly a year af­ter the Con­necti­cut drug­mak­er ex­e­cut­ed a $270 mil­lion pact to buy out The Med­i­cines Co’s in­fec­tious dis­ease group — one in a string of pipeline ex­pan­sion deals — the com­pa­ny is re­port­ed­ly clos­ing down its head­quar­ters and lay­ing off 22 out of 25 staff and spin­ning out re­search projects, the lo­cal New Haven Biz re­port­ed last week. The bulk of the cuts were in R&D.

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