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Nafamostat Inhalation Drug Now in Clinic for COVID-19: Daiichi Sankyo
Daiichi Sankyo said on March 30 that it has started a Japan PI study on DS-2319, an inhalation formulation of nafamostat, for the treatment of COVID-19, meeting the end-of-fiscal-year target for its clinical trial launch under a four-way industry-academic research…
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