Abbvie said on Friday it would record a charge of about $3.5 billion related to its experimental schizophrenia drug, emraclidine, which recently failed in two mid-stage studies. AbbVie has been spending significantly on deals as its blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug,

Key Takeaways AbbVie said it would take a $3.5 billion dollar impairment charge related to the failure of a drug it acquired in its purchase of Cerevel Therapeutics.The biotech company reported in November that the schizophrenia drug,

AbbVie said the impairment charge is related to last year’s $8.7 billion bet on Cerevel following the failure of the deal’s key drug candidate, emraclidine, a schizophrenia treatment .

Abbvie said on Friday it would record a charge of about $3.5 billion related to its experimental schizophrenia drug, emraclidine, which recently failed in two mid-stage studies.

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) said it expects to record an impairment charge of approximately $3.5B related to the drug emraclidine, which it acquired through its acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics last year. The drugmaker disclosed in November that two Phase 2 studies of the drug failed to meet their primary endpoint.