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Astellas Closes Buyout of US Prostate Cancer Drug Maker Propella
Astellas Pharma said on December 22 that it has completed the acquisition of US startup Propella Therapeutics for roughly US$175 million, bringing an investigational prostate cancer medicine into the hold of its pipeline programs. The investigational agent PRL-02 (abiraterone decanoate)…
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