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Mitsubishi Tanabe to Solely Market Janssen’s Simponi in Japan

March 11, 2016
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma and Janssen Biotech said on March 10 that they have agreed to revise their marketing arrangement in Japan for the rheumatoid arthritis treatment Simponi (golimumab), with the Japanese firm to solely market the drug beginning on April…

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