Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 19 granted orphan drug designation to a raft of compounds, including Novartis Pharma’s ianalumab and Janssen Pharmaceutical’s (J&J) bleximenib. According to an MHLW notification issued the same day, ianalumab was…
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