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Fly News Breaks for April 18, 2018
QURE, RGNX, VYGR, ONCE, NVS, AVXS
Apr 18, 2018 | 08:25 EDT
Following AveXis (AVXS) acquisition by Novartis (NVS), Bernstein analyst Vincent Chen says the potential next target should have a strong portfolio fit and innovation-oriented scientifically-minded management teams likely comfortable with the technology platform. For acquisition targets, the analyst sees two flavors, namely late stage more de-risked gene therapy companies, for which Spark (ONCE) comes to mind, and less costly but riskier earlier-stage platforms, for which uniQure (QURE), Voyager (VYGR) and REGENXBIO (RGNX) come to mind.