Deal Watch: Focus Placed On Psoriasis With Recent Purdue, Sienna Deals
Executive Summary
Purdue will partner with Exicure to develop psoriasis therapies using the latter’s Spherical Nucleic Acid platform, while Sienna buys Creabilis to advance its psoriasis candidate to Phase III. Meanwhile, one focus of the Almirall/Nuevolution tie-up will be psoriatic arthritis.
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