Let's Make a Deal: Levin's Ovid Raises $75m
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Executive Summary
Former Teva Pharmaceutical Industries president and CEO Jeremy Levin has gone back to his dealmaking roots as chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics, which just closed a $75m Series B funding round to fund development and acquisition of treatments for rare neurological diseases.
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