Carlyle Bets Big On Late-Stage Biotech With Abingworth Buy
Partners Set Up Launch Tx
Executive Summary
Tapping into Abingworth’s pioneering clinical co-development model, the private equity behemoth is using that experience to form Launch Therapeutics which will seek to partner with biotech and biopharma on "best‐in‐class, late‐stage clinical assets [and] bring life‐saving therapies to market better, faster and cheaper."
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