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MSD Going Full Out for Sakigake-Designated Pembrolizumab, Poised to Bolster Oncology Force
MSD K.K. is devoting its intensive resources and efforts to its anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab, which is now under regulatory review in Japan, as it gears up for its launch and a string of planned indication expansions, the company’s executives said…
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