Volume 85 Issue 17
Issue Date: April 23, 2007
p. 25 ConcentratesIssue Date: April 23, 2007
Biotechs Trim Staff
Department: Business
Vaccine developer Avant Immunotherapeutics is cutting 30% of its staff and shuttering its St. Louis research facility in an effort to lower costs by 18% in the next two years. All research activities will be moved to the company's Needham, Mass., headquarters, which will house roughly 60 employees once the restructuring is complete in September. Avant will forgo investments in biodefense research and focus on viral and bacterial vaccines. Separately, Genaera is eliminating 30% of its workforce, or 10 employees, as it focuses its research on the development of trodusquemine for obesity and an anti-interleukin-9 antibody for the treatment of asthma.
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