Alkermes Strategy After Antidepressant Failures Doubted By Wall Street
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
With a pair of Phase III failures for its major depression disorder candidate ALKS-5461, Alkermes is pinning hopes on a third pivotal trial plus ad hoc analysis of a failed study – a strategy analysts find unlikely to prevail.
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