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Draft Growth Strategy Embraces Clinical Development Infrastructure, Drops Numerical Target for Sakigake System
A draft of the government’s new economic growth strategy calls on Japan to build a clinical development infrastructure by harnessing a national patient registry, but does not include a specific target for the so-called “sakigake” designation system eyed by the…
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