Stockwatch: The metamorphosys of German Biotech
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The €70 million first close of Germany's Wellington Partners fourth fund on 19 September was widely lauded as a sign of recovery of the European venture capital market (scripintelligence.com, 19 September 2012). But a more tangible indication of value was the clinical progress announced in the same week by publicly-quoted German biotech Morphosys.
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