Wellcome Trust Launches £200 Million Fund For Diverse Health Care Investments
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The U.K.’s largest charitable foundation for biomedical research is the sole investor in a new fund that will target start-ups as well as later-stage growth opportunities across the health care spectrum.
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