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Rakuten Joins Hands with LOTTE Biologics to Boost Production for Photoimmunotherapy
Rakuten Medical said on January 13 that it has signed a manufacturing agreement with South Korea’s LOTTE Biologics to strengthen its production capacity for biologic drugs used in its photoimmunotherapy programs, as development advances and commercialization plans take shape. Under…
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