First Wave BioPharma, Inc. has had to navigate some choppy waters in the past few months but the US firm has pulled off something of a coup by bagging the rights to an old Sanofi compound for peanuts.
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First Wave is licensing Sanofi’s 5-HT4 receptor partial agonist capeserod and is having to pay a mere $500,000 in upfront fees for the privilege.

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