SPACs, Opioids, and COVID: Ensysce Biosciences Making "Virtual" History
By Louis Garguilo, Chief Editor, Outsourced Pharma
If Ensysce Biosciences were a ball of yarn, we’d be unwinding it for hundreds of miles from its location in La Jolla, California.
We’d unravel:
Clinical candidate for one of the worst words in the drug industry: opioids
An all-outsourced model and a mere five employees
One of the first biotechs to go public via a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company)
The serendipitous discovery of an in-house material that works against COVID-19
Could Lynn Kirkpatrick have picked a more challenging biopharma to join as CEO?