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The Recipe for Success Behind Elevation Pharmaceuticals’ $430M Deal

September 3, 2012
What was Bill Gerhart’s recipe for success at San Diego’s Elevation Pharmaceuticals? Less than four years ago, Gerhart took a glycoyrrolate, a generic drug approved decades ago by the FDA, and set out to reformulate the compound for use with a nebulizer for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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