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Teva swoops on Auspex with $3.2bn acquisition

 
• By Eleanor Malone

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has agreed to acquire Auspex Pharmaceuticals in an all cash deal valuing the CNS-focused firm at $3.2bn. Teva executives underlined that the deal did not preclude other, bigger, deals that it is still hoping to make.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has agreed to acquire Auspex Pharmaceuticals in an all cash deal valuing the CNS-focused firm at $3.2bn. Teva executives underlined that the deal did not preclude other, bigger, deals that it is still hoping to make.

Auspex develops products for movement disorders, and has a lead product that could launch in 2016. SD-809 (deutetrabenazine) passed Phase III trials in Huntington's chorea last year and a New...

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