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Otsuka’s IgA Nephropathy Drug Gets FDA Breakthrough Tag
Otsuka Pharmaceutical and its US group company Visterra said on February 16 that they have nabbed the US FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy designation for their investigational IgA nephropathy treatment sibeprenlimab. Sibeprenlimab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that blocks the action of…
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