Having Cake & Eating It: Sunesis' Solution to the Development/Discovery Challenge

The funding squeeze has relaxed, but discovery still doesn't attract much investor attention. Discovery-based Sunesis has opted to have its cake and eat it, too. It in-licensed at an early stage and thus didn't threaten its research group. And it's given its researchers perhaps another year and a half before they've got to put an invention of their own into the clinic-or in-license something else.

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