July 11, 2016 08:39 AM EDT

Sucampo shutters development effort after lead drug flops in back-to-back studies

John Carroll

Editor & Founder

Back in April, when Sucampo’s lead experimental drug cobiprostone flunked its first mid-stage study, the Rockville, MD-based biotech stubbornly insisted that an ongoing study for …

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