Nippon Shinyaku said on September 19 that the US FDA has granted orphan drug designation to its investigational Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) therapy NS-051/NCNP-04.NS-051/NCNP-04 is an antisense oligonucleotide discovered by the company jointly with the National Center of Neurology and…
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