Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Deal Statistics Quarterly, Q3 2007
Executive Summary
In this issue, we present another installment of our quarterly review of pharmaceutical/biotechnology dealmaking-for July-September 2007. Our data come from Windhover's Strategic Transactions Database.
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