Wellcome Trust’s Syncona Bets On Gene Therapy in Eye Disease
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The profit-oriented evergreen fund of Britain’s charitable foundation The Wellcome Trust, Syncona, has invested £12 million in an academic spin-out to develop and commercialize therapies for treating degenerative eye diseases.
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