Kyowa Kirin's first-in-class Parkinson's drug istradefylline filed in Japan
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Executive Summary
Kyowa Hakko Kirin has made an approval filing for the novel Parkinson's disease therapy istradefylline in Japan, which now looks likely to become the first market worldwide for the first-in-class adenosine A2a antagonist.
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