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Pfizer compound goes to Biogen

by Lisa M. Jarvis
March 19, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 12

Biogen will pay $75 million for the rights to Pfizer’s AMPA receptor potentiator PF-04958242. The first-in-class compound is meant to address cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia by improving synaptic transmission. Biogen plans to begin a Phase IIb study of the compound later this year. This sale is the first to be announced since Pfizer said in January that it would end preclinical and early-stage neuroscience drug development.

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