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Astellas, UMN Pharma Complete Cell Culture–based Flu Vaccine Inoculation of Subjects in PI/PII Trials
Astellas Pharma and UMN Pharma announced on September 15 that they have completed inoculation of subjects in the PI/PII clinical trials in Japan for their cell culture-based seasonal influenza hemagglutinin (HA) vaccine ASP7374 (former development number: UMN-0502), which is being…
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