
AbbVie's Schizophrenia Drug Fails, Boosting Bristol Myers' Stock
AbbVie's $8.7 billion acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics has hit a setback as its schizophrenia drug candidate, emraclidine, failed two phase 2 trials, missing primary endpoints and showing no significant improvement over placebo. This failure benefits rival Bristol Myers Squibb, whose stock rose as AbbVie's fell. Despite the setback, AbbVie notes other promising candidates from the Cerevel acquisition, including a Parkinson's disease treatment that recently succeeded in phase 3 trials.
