This Surging Biotech Company Has Attracted a Web of Hedge Fund Managers

Several big-name hedge funds are enjoying gains from Axovant Sciences, whose parent company was founded by a former hedge fund manager.

Fraser Wright (Photo via Spark Therapeutics)

Fraser Wright

(Photo via Spark Therapeutics)

A small clinical-stage biotech company that more than doubled in price on Wednesday had previously attracted a large group of high-profile hedge fund managers.

Shares of Axovant Sciences surged 160 percent, to close at $4.55, on Wednesday after the company announced it licensed the exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize an investigational gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease from Oxford BioMedica.

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