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Two biotech firms pare staff

November 6, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 45

Critical Therapeutics is cutting 63 positions, more than half its workforce, as it focuses on commercializing the controlled-release form of zileuton for the treatment of asthma. Among the eliminated jobs are 20 in R&D and 32 in the sales and marketing of standard zileuton, sold as Zyflo. Meanwhile, QLT is eliminating about 80 jobs in response to a continued decline in sales of Visudyne, its treatment for age-related macular degeneration. QLT employed 438 people as of March 1.

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