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Kyowa Hakko Kirin will beef up the business base of its top-priority nephrology field by boosting its lineup of products with the DPP-4 (dipeptidyl peptidase-4) inhibitor saxagliptin, which was licensed from Otsuka Pharmaceutical. At an earnings briefing on July 27,…
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