Eiger To Close After GLP-1 Antagonist Gambit Fails

The company had pivoted towards a drug with the opposite mechanism to Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, but ran out of time and money.

Eiger Pharmaceuticals

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals has filed for bankruptcy after its long-running financial problems and R&D setbacks came to a head.

The Palo Alto, CA-based company marketed Zokinvy (lonafarnib), the first ever treatment for premature ageing condition Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, one of the rarest diseases in the world

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