Financings Of The Fortnight: Finding Comedy In Today's Financial Environment
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
A Magic 8-Ball assesses the Sanofi/Genzyme intrigue, while Convergence, Agennix, Tobira and CtyomX highlight a busy two weeks in biotech finance.
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