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Merrimack Pharmaceuticals company history timeline

2000

Merrimack was founded by a group of scientists from MIT and Harvard University in 2000.

2016

In October 2016, CEO Robert Mulroy resigned and the company announced they would be laying off 20% of its employees.

2017

In January 2017, interim CEO Gary Crocker resigned and the board of directors appointed Richard Peters to be president and CEO. Peters previously worked at Sanofi and was a faculty member at Harvard University.

In January 2017, French pharmaceutical company Ipsen announced they would be purchasing Onivyde from Merrimack for approximately $1 billion.

2018

On November 13, 2018, the statistical programming director Songjiang Wang, received "six months in prison and one year supervised released" after a guilty verdict was handed down to Wang from a United States District Judge in July 2018 for securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

2019

Also on December 20, 2019, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission charged Wang with Insider trading.

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Founded
2000
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Headquarters
Cambridge, MA
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Founders
Ulrik B. Nielsen,Gavin MacBeath
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