Orphazyme expects to lay off 100 employees this year

At the end of July, Orphazyme completed its restructuring program, and according to the biotech company, it expects to have around 70 full-time employees at the end of the year. At the end of the first half-year, 180 people were employed.
Photo: Orphazyme/PR
Photo: Orphazyme/PR
BY CHRISTOFFER DUE KARLSSON, TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE BRETT

It is no secret that Orphazyme has been forced to cut down its number of staff considerably after the FDA rejected the biotech company's key candidate arimoclomal as a treatment for metabolic disease Niemann-Pick type C, NPC.

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