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Otsuka Collaboration “More Positive” than Solo Even If Profits Shared: Sumitomo Dainippon Chief
Sumitomo Dainippon President Hiroshi Nomura on October 27 highlighted the importance of the company’s global collaboration agreement inked with Otsuka Pharmaceutical in running multiple clinical trials for investigational drugs in the CNS arena. “Even if we have to share profits,…
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