One Company's Distraction Is Another's Lead Product
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Hoping to unfreeze investor attitudes toward the industry, biotechs are embracing product strategies with the enthusiasm of religious converts. Platforms are out; so, increasingly, is discovery. The clinic is in. Targacept and Layton Bioscience are both embracing this philosophy, which enabled their deal in which Targacept bought rights to a marketed small-molecule from cell therapist Layton.