R&D Analysis Foreign-Affiliates’ Pipelines Showing Clear Shift to Fields with Unmet Medical Needs The R&D focus of foreign-affiliated drug makers is clearly shifting from mass markets to specialty and rare disease fields. With the drug lag shrinking in recent years,…
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