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Rakuten Medical’s Photoimmunotherapy Filed in Japan, Subject to Conditional Early OK
Rakuten Medical’s ASP-1929, an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) that works on its unique “photoimmunotherapy” platform, is now under Japanese regulatory review for the treatment of recurrent head and neck cancer under the conditional, early approval pathway. The San Mateo, California-based…
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