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Astellas to Collaborate with DNDi on Drug Discovery for Tropical Diseases

June 14, 2012
Astellas Pharma announced on June 12 that it signed an agreement on the same day with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, to collaborate on drug discovery in the search for the…

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