Pfizer sells Icagen drug discovery, not compounds
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Four years after Pfizer acquired Icagen for $56m, the big pharma sold the drug discovery firm to XRpro Sciences for up to $11m, which would seem to be a big discount if the deal gave the buyer access to compounds generated by Icagen's ion channel biology platform.
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