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AnGes Alters Strategy for Collategene, Halts Japan Sales for Fresh Submission
AnGes is changing its development strategy for its HGF gene therapy Collategene (beperminogene perplasmid). The change involves the pulling of its Japanese application currently under review that seeks a conversion from conditional to full approval, which will then be followed…
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