Normality Reasserts Itself For Biotech IPOs

The highs of the COVID-19 era, and the lows that supplanted it, are beginning to fade.    

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It is too early to say that biotech IPOs are back. But the showing in the first quarter of this year is cheering: more flotations got away since the first quarter of 2022, according to Evaluate Pharma, and more money was raised since the period before that.

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