
Biogen CEO Michel Vounatsos (via Getty Images)
With aducanumab caught on a cliff, Biogen’s Michel Vounatsos bets billions on another high-risk neuro play
With its FDA pitch on the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab hanging perilously close to disaster, Biogen is rolling the dice on a $3.1 billion deal that brings in commercial rights to one of the other spotlight neuro drugs in late-stage development — after it already failed its first Phase III.
The big biotech has turned to Sage Therapeutics for its latest deal, close to a year after the crushing failure of Sage-217, now dubbed zuranolone, in the MOUNTAIN study.
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