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Chugai Pharmaceutical’s executives revealed on November 21 that the company’s production efficiency of bulk drug substances for antibody drugs has increased 10-fold since 2002, and its production costs of bulk drug substances have declined several-fold as well. Takashi Uchio, department…
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