UCB Japan announced on April 18 that Kanako Kikuchi, former president of the Japan arm of GlaxoSmithKline PLC, would be appointed to lead the company from May 1. Graduated from the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences at Hokkaido University, Ms Kikuchi…
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