Quiz answer re money-losing biotechs
Q: Name three Massachusetts-based biotech companies who have between them lost more then $4B since their inception.
Readers have correctly named the threesome of MLNM ($2.5B of cumulative losses), SEPR ($1.6B), and VRTX ($1.0B).
The mystery fourth big money loser is ALKS, which has amassed $600M of cumulative losses since inception.
Hence, these four companies between them have lost almost $6B (!) since inception.
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