GSK Ventures Into The Device World Through Bioelectronic Investment
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The British pharma has financed a new venture fund to create a presence in an emerging technology and help jump-start the fledgling industry because it believes that the science has reached a transition point.
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