Deals In Depth: January 2016
Executive Summary
Nestle Health signed a $1.9 billion microbiome deal with Seres; Thermo Fisher paid $1.3 billion for fellow life sciences company Affymetrix. Biopharma and device financing totaled $2.9 billion and $254 million, respectively.
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