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Jefferies Conference Highlights How Biotech’s Rollercoaster Ride Will Continue Into 2024

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

Survey shows long-term optimism but fears that 2024 will be another hard slog for those biotechs with dwindling cash resources.

Jefferies conference 2022
Jefferies' conference is held every year in London and is one of the biggest biopharma investor events in Europe. • Source: Scrip

The lean times in biotech financing look set to continue into 2024, with the greatest hope for improvement coming from increased M&A and deal-making activity.

That is according to a new survey of 600 executives, drawn from investors and senior biopharma leaders conducted by investment bank Jefferies ahead of

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