BUSINESS
To Weather Latuda Cliff, Sumitomo Dainippon Looks to Cash In on Roivant Alliance to Push Priority R&D
With the LOE of its bread-and-butter antipsychotic Latuda (lurasidone) looming large, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma is poised to funnel cash generated through its impending deal with Roivant Sciences into R&D in its core therapeutic areas of CNS, oncology, and cell therapies,…
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