Roche Holding AG fell the most in almost six months in Zurich trading after abandoning development of an experimental cholesterol drug as a late-stage trial showed it wasn’t working.
An independent group of experts recommended stopping the study of dalcetrapib “due to a lack of clinically meaningful efficacy,” Basel, Switzerland-based Roche said in a statement today. The company had planned a six-trial development program that could have put more than 35,000 patients on the drug, intended to boost so-called good cholesterol.
