Bayer has shuttered a Phase II program that the EMA had designated an orphan drug “for scientific reasons,” the German conglomerate disclosed in its half-year report.
The cut comes as Bayer reports pharma earnings that are below the prior year — despite “stable sales” — due to “higher R&D investments in cell and gene therapy and chemoproteomics technologies, as well as in projects in advanced clinical development.”
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