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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe After a strong Q1, the public biotech indices underperformed relative to the other sectors. Nonetheless, last quarter saw two of the largest
IPOs of the year so far: rare disease engineering venture BridgeBio Pharma and adoptive T cell therapy/vaccine specialist Adaptive Biotechnologies. Most funding sources (except IPOs)
experienced a downtick from previous quarters, with partnerships at their lowest level in a year. Cancer and gene therapy remain atop the winners in the eyes of the venture capital crowd.
1Q18 2Q18 3Q18 4Q18 1Q19 2Q19 Asia-Pacific 17 23 15 7 18 13 Europe 35 28 29 35 29 26 Americas 104 96 82 84 59 67 * Source: BCIQ: BioCentury Online Intelligence This is a preview of
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and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE DeFrancesco, L. 2Q19—Biotech funding stagnates. _Nat Biotechnol_ 37, 838–839 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0216-x Download
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