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Healthcare: Gene Therapy Deals -- What Company Could Be Next?

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Here's why Roche's acquisition of gene therapy pioneer Spark Therapeutics and Biogen's acquisition of gene therapy upstart Nightstar Therapeutics could put Regenxbio in play. RHHBY, ONCE, BIIB, NITE, RGNX

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0:00.0

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0:03.7

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0:08.7

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0:10.7

Find Hello Monday on Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to Podcast.

0:17.0

Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every single day.

0:24.0

Today is Wednesday, March the 6th.

0:26.0

I'm your host Shannon Jones, and I'm joined via Skype by a health care guru Todd Campbell.

0:31.0

Todd, how are you?

0:32.0

Good, hello Wednesday. Todd Campbell. Todd, how are you?

0:32.8

Good, hello Wednesday.

0:34.3

Hello Wednesday.

0:37.0

Yeah, no, glad to be back on the show again today

0:39.3

and to chat about a lot of really interesting stuff.

0:43.6

Yeah, it's been a little while and I'm glad that for today's topic we're actually diving straight into the major headlines

0:51.1

because Todd there have been a plethora of mergers and acquisitions

0:56.0

over the past couple of weeks so we're going to be diving into that and then also two at the

1:00.7

end we're also going to make a very bold prediction about the company we think could be the next big buyout target as well.

1:08.0

Todd, let's just set the stage for the mergers that have been happening because they've really been focused in the who are maybe new to biotech new to the space what exactly is gene therapy?

1:25.6

So before we talk about gene therapy let's talk about what our genes do because

1:30.0

then you'll be able to better understand what gene therapy is.

1:33.0

So our genes are pretty special, right?

1:34.9

They produce proteins that allow our bodies to work right.

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