Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Kyowa Kirin Pulls Plug on Tivantinib, Follows Daiichi Sankyo
Kyowa Hakko Kirin said on October 6 that it has called off the development of the c-MET inhibitor tivantinib (ARQ197) after the company failed to yield positive results from any of its studies covering multiple tumor types. In 2007, Kyowa…
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