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PhRMA/EFPIA Lash Out at Japan’s Plan for Mandatory Startup Fund

By Takashi Ebisawa December 26, 2024
US and European pharma trade groups on December 25 expressed their vehement opposition to a plan they say is being conceived by the Japanese government to develop legislation that would require research-driven drug makers to pay for a startup fund.…

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