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US-based fund to invest $1bn in UK biotech

December 4, 2017
Life sciences

A US-based life sciences investment fund is planning to invest up to $1bn to create a large biotech company in the UK, a move likely to be seized on by ministers as a vote of confidence in the business environment post-Brexit.

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By Sarah Neville

Source: Financial Times

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