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Published in TZ Latest News 22 September, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff

This Trial Failure Dropped Versartis Inc 86.6% and Lifted Ascendis Pharma 51.4%

Shares of biopharma Versartis (NASDAQ: VSAR) crashed nearly 87% Friday after somavaratan, the company’s lead drug candidate, did not meet its primary endpoint in the phase 3 Velocity trial. The drug is a recombinant human growth hormone that was being evaluated as a treatment for growth hormone deficiency in children. It failed to spur height growth as well as Genotropin from Pfizer, the current standard treatment.

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