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. 2021 Apr;39(4):408-413.
doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-00876-w.

Biotech bubbles during the global recession

Melanie Senior  1
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Biotech bubbles during the global recession

Melanie Senior. Nat Biotechnol. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

Private biotech firms are awash with funding, raising record-breaking sums in 2020. Melanie Senior reports.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Global VC investment in biotech over ten years.
Source: BCIQ.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2. Infectious diseases activity rises, but still in cancer’s shadow.
Source: BCIQ.
Fig. 3
Fig. 3. Investors whose 2020 activity reached 40% or more of 2015–2019 activity combined.
Source: BioCentury (https://www.biocentury.com/article/633658).
Fig. 4
Fig. 4. Global 2020 biotech IPOs.
Source: BCIQ.
Fig. 5
Fig. 5. Biotech 2020 IPOs by region.
Source: BCIQ.
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