 More than 500 biotech companies operate in the US, doing their part to make it the world's hub for innovation. Only about 20 of them turn a profit, though, highlighting the dangers of the biotech sector. High overhead, long research terms, and the uncertainties of clinical testing and regulatory approval all weigh on them, making biotech at once the riskiest and most potentially profitable of the stock market's segments.Enter Joseph Edelman. The hedge fund veteran started Perceptive Advisors back in 1999 with just $6 million, and his hedge has grown to hold over $5 billion in assets under management today. Edelman's fund's flagship, the Perceptive Life Sciences Fund, specializes in small- and mid-cap biotech companies. That Edelman knows how to spot the winners is clear from the Life Sciences Fund's annualized gains of 30% since its inception.In the words of Brad Loncar, of Loncar Investments, biotech is the "most volatile sector in the stock market… More so than any industry, it's important to be diversified... Even excellent companies with great science fail all the time and have big setbacks, because it's that difficult of a business." Edelman has thrived in this difficult business for the last twenty years, and in his most recent 13F filing, for the quarter ending this past September 30, he doubled down on three companies.We've looked up each in the TipRanks database, to find a line on why.Amarin Corporation (AMRN)A mid-cap company, valued at $7 billion, Amarin is the largest
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