Formation of Spacs – special-purpose acquisition companies – is surging, but will fierce competition for deals hurt performance?
Two acquisitions of cell therapy companies could take them in almost opposite directions.
The biotech calendar’s next key conference gets under way in a month, and a presentation by Nextcure will be a focus for some investors.
As the tiny Norwegian biotech gears up to put its first asset into the clinic, investors could use an ongoing trial to handicap its chances of success.
Immunocore has recently been beset with multiple senior executive departures, but has managed to press on into phase I with a Glaxo-partnered asset.
A new cell therapy approach has, in low-key fashion, attracted financing and the attention of big biopharma.