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Payer Chides AnGes’s Course Change on Collategene, Urges Re-Think of System’s Set-Up
Late last month, AnGes suddenly reversed its strategy for HGF gene therapy Collategene (beperminogene perplasmid), announcing its plan to pull the product for now from the market, where it has been available through a conditional pathway. A vocal payer official…
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