Voyager Cheers End Of Sanofi Partnership In Parkinson's; Investors Less Confident
Executive Summary
The gene therapy developer described Sanofi's decision to give up ex-US rights to VY-AADC01 as good news, but its stock price fell anyway. Voyager maintains that it wasn't necessarily counting on its partner to opt in, so it has enough funding without Sanofi to conduct a Phase II/III study.
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