UK's Nightstar NASDAQ Listing Backs British Biotech Build-Up Strategy
Executive Summary
The UK developer of gene therapies for inherited eye diseases has listed on NASDAQ, adding to its monetary resources for competing in what is becoming a competitive sector for drug development, and going some way to validating the approach of the UK healthcare investment firm, Syncona, to growing biotech companies.
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