Yuhan Licenses Out Degenerative Disc Therapy To Spine Despite Earlier Trial Failure
Executive Summary
South Korean pharma firm licenses out to US venture Spine Biopharma novel peptide drug for degenerative disc disease YH14618, despite a Phase II failure and trial halt in 2016.
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