Investing In Science

For the Global Groups Johnny Hon, biotech companies are at the cutting edgeof medical research and can also offer big rewards for far-sighted investors

Whether they’re searching for a cure for cancer or a way to end the opioid epidemic in the US, biotech companies can be exciting and hugely rewarding investments—both in terms of financial reward and in the satisfaction of funding scientific advances that may help humanity.

But they’re not for the faint-hearted. Investing in the biotech sector is a highly specialised endeavour, as it can take a long time and a lot of money to develop a promising research idea into a treatment that can actually be used on people, with many hurdles to jump along the way and no guarantee that the research will lead to a viable treatment.