San­thera ax­es half its em­ploy­ees and sees CMO de­part af­ter PhI­II DMD fail

Less than a month af­ter show­ing its lead Duchenne mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy pro­gram out the door, San­thera Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals is slash­ing half its staff.

The Swiss biotech an­nounced the move Mon­day morn­ing as it con­tin­ues its re­struc­tur­ing around a sec­ond DMD can­di­date, va­morolone. Among the em­ploy­ees de­part­ing is San­thera’s now-for­mer CMO Kristi­na Sjöblom Ny­gren, though the com­pa­ny not­ed that she left for “fam­i­ly rea­sons and to pur­sue oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ties,” per a state­ment.

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