The BioCentury 100 Index is now up nearly 500%, the longest bull run since the index commenced in the early 1990s (S&P 500 is up 200% over same period). Funding, excluding partnership monies, was a robust $22.7 billion in 2Q, with public offerings 50% higher and debt financings ($7.6 billion) 36% higher than in 2Q14. Private biotech saw a 10% increase in money raised to $3.2 billion, led by a whopping $217-million series A from neurology startup Denali Therapeutics (San Francisco).
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Yang, W. 2Q15—Running of the biotech bulls. Nat Biotechnol 33, 794 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3311
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