Sage Therapeutics Inc said on Thursday its experimental drug failed to improve condition of patients with severe depression in a late-stage study, setting up the drugmaker to lose about $4 billion in valuation when the market opens. The hotly anticipated data was expected to allow the company to widen its reach in the multi-billion dollar depression market it entered with its first-approved drug, Zulresso, for postpartum depression. SVB Leerink analyst Marc Goodman had said in a note ahead of the trial results that a late-stage trial failure would be a major disappointment to investors and a setback for …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
