Forging ahead with its new three-year business plan, Chugai Pharmaceutical enjoyed rosy earnings in the first half of 2019, bolstered by the outperformance of the Hemlibra (emicizumab) hemophilia drug and its I/O star Tecentriq (atezolizumab). But with a biosimilar onslaught…
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Tokyo-based biotech Oncolys BioPharma is in talks with several major drug makers that have immune checkpoint inhibitors in their portfolios for the possible out-licensing of its oncolytic virus telomelysin, President Yasuo Urata revealed on February 8. “We are aggressively exploring…
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