Reliant: The Expensive Opportunities in Primary Care

Reliant's business model -- building a new company to sell the primary care products that looked too puny for Big Pharma -- posed management and financing challenges that almost killed the company. It's turned around, thanks to new management and a product in a hot area-lipids. But what's really got its investors excited: the opportunities posed by late-stage primary-care failures at Big Pharmas, who are now looking for market-proven products. And those Big Pharmas can help pay the acquisition cost by dismantling the costly infrastructure created to prove the product's value in the first place.