Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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AnGes MG to Resume Collategene Development for Critical Limb Ischemia Treatment: President Yamada
AnGes MG President Ei Yamada said on November 28 that the company will resume the development of its investigational hepatocyte growth factor gene treatment Collategene (beperminogene perplasmid) for critical limb ischemia. “Launching Collategene is our biggest obligation,” he said at…
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