Cerevel Launches With Pfizer's Early CNS Assets And $350m From Bain Capital

Pfizer ended its early neuroscience R&D work earlier this year, but will retain a 25% stake in the start-up, which may begin a Phase III Parkinson's disease study in 2019. This is the second time Bain has financed a Pfizer spin-out.

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Pfizer Inc. and Bain Capital LP are teaming up once again to launch a new company with a portfolio of Pfizer assets. This time, the big pharma is spinning out some of the neuroscience programs it scuttled earlier this year into Cerevel Therapeutics LLC, backed by $350m from two Bain private equity funds.

The start-up doesn't even have a CEO yet, but it has a Parkinson's disease drug candidate that Cerevel is expected...

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