4D Pharma Is Latest Biotech Casualty After Creditor Calls Time
Third NASDAQ-Listed Biotech To Cease Trading In 2022
Executive Summary
The UK biotech looks to have reached the end of the road, despite some encouraging signs from its microbiome-based pipeline.
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