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Amgen Confident of Getting Handsome Slice of Japan Biosimilar Market: Exec

August 19, 2016
US biotech behemoth Amgen is confident about capturing a “very substantial” market share in the Japanese biosimilar market, where it plans to roll out nine products through local partner Daiichi Sankyo, the head of the company’s biosimilar business told Jiho.…

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