Syncona Focuses On Creating Commercially Ambitious Businesses

With £1bn under management, patient capital company Syncona Limited reveals its strategy for creating and building companies that will generate reimbursable products for patients.

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During the 2017 BIO-Europe partnering meeting in Berlin, Germany, Syncona's Iraj Ali talks to Informa Pharma Intelligence’s Mike Ward about the investment group’s funding sweet spots.

Syncona Limited was formed in December 2016 when BACIT (formerly Battle Against Cancer Investment Trust) acquired Syncona Partners LLP to...

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