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Biotech’s brash entrepreneur finally finds drug-development success with overactive bladders

Biotech's brash entrepreneur finally finds drug-development success with a drug for overactive bladder.
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Vivek Ramaswamy, the hedge fund manager turned biotech entrepreneur, has raised billions of dollars to create a constellation of “Vant” companies that license and develop drugs from other firms. Five years and one spectacular Alzheimer’s drug blowup later, Ramaswamy finally notched a late-stage clinical trial win.

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