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Astellas Pharma announced on July 15 that it concluded a license agreement with Vical Inc. of the US and obtained exclusive worldwide development and commercializing rights to Vical's TransVax, a therapeutic vaccine designed to control cytomegalovirus (CMV) viremia in transplant…
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