Texas biotech ex­e­cutes a re­verse merg­er with a bat­tered Thresh­old

Five months af­ter watch­ing its stock go in­to a melt­down on the mid-stage fail­ure of its can­cer drug tar­lox­o­tinib, South San Fran­cis­co-based Thresh­old Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals $THLD has worked out a re­verse merg­er with a small, Austin-based biotech called Mol­e­c­u­lar Tem­plates. And the deal comes with the prospect of a fresh in­jec­tion of cap­i­tal.

Lon­gi­tude Cap­i­tal has agreed to pump in $20 mil­lion for the com­bined com­pa­ny, pro­vid­ed Thresh­old can work out an ad­di­tion­al $20 mil­lion in­vest­ment.

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