Golden ticket? Regeneron, Sanofi buy priority review voucher for alirocumab
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Executive Summary
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi paid $67.5m to buy BioMarin Pharmaceutical's rare pediatric disease priority review voucher, which could help their cholesterol-reducing therapy alirocumab win US FDA approval before Amgen's competing biologic evolocumab.
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