Deals In Depth: April 2013
Executive Summary
Roche is optioning Isis’ Huntington’s disease antisense candidates in a deal worth $282 million and Thermo Fisher paid just over $15 billion for Life Technologies. Biopharma financing was up 23% to $1.2 billion, device fundraising down 35% to $338 million.
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