As reported previously, Reed Maurer passed away on August 30 due to complications from pneumonia. He was approaching his 84th birthday.Reed has been a driver of the international pharma community in Japan like nobody else. Arriving over fifty years ago…
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Expert Panel Delivers Harsh Verdict on Aducanumab, FDA Decision Due by March 7
A key US FDA advisory committee voted overwhelmingly against Biogen’s controversial Alzheimer’s treatment aducanumab on November 6, two days after the agency issued a briefing document that gave a strongly positive review of the drug. With the vote being non-binding,…
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