Agennix shutters Houston site
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Agennix is cutting its staff count by just over a half and closing its Houston, Texas site in a bid to conserve cash as management decides what to do in the wake of the late-stage failure of its lead product candidate talactoferrin earlier this month (scripintelligence.com, 7 August 2012).
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