Un­der new lead­er­ship, No­var­tis' San­doz unit breaks up with dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics out­fit Pear

Looks like No­var­tis’ San­doz unit — un­der new lead­er­ship — has sev­ered ties with Pear Ther­a­peu­tics, dis­solv­ing the part­ner­ship that was inked in 2018.

Last year, San­doz and Pear col­lab­o­rat­ed on and launched re­SET, an FDA-ap­proved dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic de­signed to de­liv­er cog­ni­tive be­hav­ioral ther­a­py over 12 weeks to pa­tients with sub­stance abuse dis­or­der (SUD) who are in out­pa­tient treat­ment un­der the su­per­vi­sion of a doc­tor. The Swiss drug­mak­er al­so in­vest­ed in Pear’s Se­ries B round of fi­nanc­ing an­nounced in Jan­u­ary 2018.

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