Ep. 134 - Preclinical Deal Making, Bluebird's Approval & Epigenome Editing

Despite public market investors shying away from preclinical companies amid biotech’s bear market, large biopharmas have ramped up their deal making for early-stage assets and technologies and are willing to pay for access to new modalities, says BioCentury’s Stephen Hansen on the latest BioCentury This Week podcast. Hansen and colleagues also discuss the implications of FDA’s approval of gene therapy Zynteglo from bluebird bio Inc., and the latest advances and leaders in the field of epigenome editing.