Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Chugai Licenses Melanoma Treatment Vemurafenib from Roche; PI Trial to Begin in 2012
Chugai Pharmaceutical announced on August 15 that it has licensed the metastatic melanoma treatment vemurafenib from its parent company F. Hoffmann-La Roche of Switzerland, and will initiate a domestic PI clinical trial in 2012. Vemurafenib is a BRAF inhibitor discovered…
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