Millendo Gets European Foothold With Alizé Acquisition
Executive Summary
The US company is getting hold of livoletide, the French firm's late-stage ready compound for reducing hyperphagia, or insatiable hunger, in patients suffering from the rare genetic disease Prader-Willi Syndrome.
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