Kaken Pharmaceutical said on November 13 that it has signed a strategic licensing and co-development agreement with Swiss biotech Numab Therapeutics for NM81, a novel multi-specific antibody previously known as ND081. The Japanese drug maker exercised its option to acquire…
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