On the heels of pock­et­ing $30M from Alex­ion, Stealth Bio says its PhI­II was a flop

Two months ago, the BD team at Alex­ion paid $30 mil­lion to buy them­selves a front-row seat to Stealth Bio­Ther­a­peu­tics’ Phase III on elamipre­tide, a po­ten­tial first-in-class drug for mi­to­chon­dr­i­al dis­ease.

But that po­ten­tial — along with the shares Alex­ion bought in the deal — have now been bad­ly dam­aged.

Stealth re­vealed Fri­day morn­ing that the Phase III was a flop, and its shares $MI­TO cratered, drop­ping 57% ahead of the bell.

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