Dementia-Focused VC Fund Hopes To Succeed Where Other Research Strategies Have Not
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
A group of pharmaceutical companies, charities and the UK government are funding the first venture capital fund targeted against a specific condition, dementia.
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