Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on September 25 granted orphan drug designation to a batch of compounds including JCR Pharmaceuticals’ oral histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor givinostat and Scholar Rock Japan’s monoclonal antibody apitegromab. According to an MHLW…
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