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Takeda Mulls Sale of Shire GI Pipeline to Clinch European Clearance
Takeda Pharmaceutical is in talks with the European Commission (EC) about the possible sale of Shire’s GI drug candidate SHP647 so as to iron out a future overlap in their portfolio and clear the last antitrust hurdle to its proposed…
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