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Launching your first clinical trial is the type of announcement most biotech executives eagerly anticipate, hoping to celebrate with employees. But for Celsius Therapeutics CEO Tariq Kassum, it’s proving to be more difficult than he anticipated.

That’s because in recent days, Celsius, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been forced to conduct a round of layoffs, sources told STAT. Kassum confirmed around 75% of Celsius’ 40-person team had been laid off, and disclosed that the biotech has also been quietly paring back its pipeline this year. It shut down almost all early-stage research projects, including pausing all of its cancer drug work, in order to conserve enough cash for the Phase 1 trial it announced this week.

“It’s an incredibly bittersweet moment.… The cognitive dissonance there is just really, really hard,” Kassum told STAT. “But I do think that you’re seeing a lot of other companies doing what we are, which is, as painful as it is, to focus on the nearest term value drivers, the things that can get to patients the quickest, and make the painful decisions that allow you to live to fight another day.”

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