Surprise Boehringer Decision Turns Hanmi Investors’ Hopes To Despair
Executive Summary
Hanmi shares have gone on a wild roller coaster ride as bad news came after good. A day after it announced a huge licensing agreement with Genentech, the South Korean firm unveiled that Boehringer Ingelheim had decided to return rights to olmutinib, the EGFR inhibitor it licensed from Hanmi last July.
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