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$4.9 Billion Dollar Buyout of Firm Backed by California's Stem Cell Program; Good News for Agency Supporters

$4.9 Billion Dollar Buyout of Firm Backed by California's Stem Cell Program; Good News for Agency Supporters

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Mar 02, 2020
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California's "eat-me," cancer-fighting firm Forty Seven, Inc., is being purchased in a $4.9 billion deal this morning that appears to validate the state's multimillion-dollar investment in the enterprise.

Forty Seven has received $15 million directly from the California stem cell agency. One of Forty Seven's co-founders, Irv Weissman of Stanford Universi…

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