EirGen’s founders have stayed on to run their firm after selling it for €135 million
Patsy Carney and Tom Brennan have taken me through their journey. It is a story that begins with a college module and ends with one of the Irish corporate deals of the year. It is the story of how they built EirGen Pharma from the ground up, before flipping the Waterford pharmaceutical company to US multinational Opko last week for a whopping $135 million.
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