MorphoSys Foresees 10 New Program Starts In 2014, Earnings Deficit

MorphoSys expects both partnered and proprietary activities to generate around 10 new program starts this year as the German biotech strongly boosts its R&D investment, a plan that will generate its first earnings shortfall in a decade.

German biotech MorphoSys AG’s expects around ten new antibody program starts this year, as it boosts investments in go-it-alone projects to between €36 million to €41 million ($50 million to $57 million) from €32 million in 2013.

The plan will be expensive, taking the German biotech into the red for the first time since 2004.

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