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Takeda, Ovid Launching 3 New Studies for Rare Epilepsy Drug
Takeda Pharmaceutical and US biotech Ovid Therapeutics said on July 18 that they plan to start three new clinical studies for their investigational rare epilepsy treatment TAK-935/OV935, a first-in-class CH24H inhibitor, by the end of September. In January 2017, the…
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