Sanofi-Aventis pulls out of TroVax but in ocular deal with Oxford BioMedica
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Executive Summary
Sanofi-Aventis has pulled out of developing Oxford BioMedica's novel cancer vaccine TroVax, but will pay the UK company £34 million to develop four preclinical ocular therapies.
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