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FPMAJ Chair Questions Sakigake as Incentive for Prioritizing Japan R&D
Japan’s sakigake fast-track pathway lacks compelling incentives for pharmaceutical companies to prioritize the country in the global development of breakthrough therapies, Kenji Yasukawa, chairman of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ), said on June 23. “There simply…
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