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Kyowa Kirin Closes Acquisition of UK Gene Therapy Player Orchard
Kyowa Kirin said on January 24 that it has completed the acquisition of gene therapy specialist Orchard Therapeutics, taking into the fold the UK firm’s metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) drug Libmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel) as well as its technology platform. With the…
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