Wave Keeps Neuro Focus Via Pfizer Collaboration For Five Metabolic Targets
Executive Summary
Wave Life Sciences Ltd. entered into a collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. for the discovery and development of nucleic acid therapeutics addressing five metabolic disease targets, adding $40m in upfront cash to its balance sheet that will help the newly public biotechnology firm keep its in-house focus on rare, genetic neurological and neuromuscular diseases.
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