Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on September 29 granted orphan drug designation to a long list of new compounds including Vera Therapeutics’ atacicept for the proposed indication of IgA nephropathy. The designated compounds and expected indications aside…
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