Japan Tobacco and its subsidiary Torii Pharmaceutical signed a licensing accord with Menlo Therapeutics to exclusively develop and commercialize the US biotech’s pruritus drug candidate serlopitant in Japan, the companies said on August 10. Serlopitant, an oral neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor…
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