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This troubled biotech needed cash, so it turned to a predatory lender: its own CEO

This troubled biotech needed cash, so it turned to a predatory lender: its own CEO.

I don’t write about Northwest Biotherapeutics much anymore because it’s not cool to punch down. However, there was a juicy nugget in the cancer biotech’s recently filed 10-Q that had to be shared. It’s another example of a biotech executive getting rich at the expense of shareholders and patients.

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