Spain's Oryzon Bucks Trend To Seek NASDAQ Listing

While Raising Cash For Cancer and CNS Drugs

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Madrid is home to Oryzon which moved from Barcelona in 2017 • Source: Shutterstock

It has been a miserable year for biotechs who were planning to hit the markets for funds, and initial public offerings are at their lowest for a decade, but Spain's Oryzon Genomics SA is going against the grain and weighing up a listing on the other side of the Atlantic.

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