Takeda Catches Rising Tide Of Antisense Neuroscience R&D
Executive Summary
Huntington's disease is one of several genetically defined neurological diseases that are being targeted in a multibillion-dollar collaboration forged between the US's Wave Life Sciences and Japan's Takeda, that could include co-commercialization by the biotech in the US.
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