Alios Buy Best Forgotten For Johnson & Johnson As RSV Failure Costs It Dear

Johnson & Johnson has written off a further $700m against the RSV asset that it obtained with its $1.75bn purchase of Alios.

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Johnson & Johnson has taken a further $700m impairment charge after the failure of its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) asset AL-8176 (lumicitabine) which it obtained via its 2014 acquisition of Alios BioPharma Inc. for $1.75bn.

The new charge, which represents the remaining intangible asset value related to AL-8176 and will be reflected in the company’s...

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