Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings, Inc.

The fourth quarter of 2024 was not without setbacks for AbbVie, which took a $3.5bn impairment against the value of its 2023 buyout of Cerevel after a Phase II failure in schizophrenia, but the pharma

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Whereas the primary driver of AbbVie’s $8.7bn acquisition of Cerevel, the schizophrenia candidate emraclidine, has been a disappointment, the pharma racked up a third positive Phase III readout for th

AbbVie and Bristol Myers Squibb grabbed headlines last December with dueling, high-value acquisitions in the neuroscience space, and a pair of Phase II trial misses revealed by AbbVie on 11 November i