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Pharmaceuticals

Coley halts work on hepatitis drug

January 29, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 5

Massachusetts-based Coley Pharmaceutical will discontinue development of Actilon, its candidate for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection, due to disappointing results from two concurrent clinical trials. In dropping the program, Coley says it has reduced its workforce, primarily drug development staff, by approximately 22%, or 33 employees, and that it will seek to outsource drug development activities going forward.

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