Stockwatch: UniQure's guile and the dubious promise of gene therapy
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
After last week's headline-grabbing deal between Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Dutch gene therapy company uniQure (scripintelligence.com, 6 April 2015), who would have thought that events in Europe might by the end of the week spell the demise of uniQure's gene therapy platform?
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