Nestlé Gets Serious With Seres Deal
Executive Summary
The January Nestlé Health-Seres alliance nets Seres one of the biggest up-front payments in several years for an ex-US product license, while Nestlé shows its continuing commitment to building a portfolio of GI nutritional therapeutics – an area where development efforts have been slow to take shape.
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