ASLAN, Sosei Pipeline Assets Hit By Development Delays
Executive Summary
Two Asia-based companies disclose delays to important clinical pipeline assets, one in oncology driven by apparent ethnic differences in response to prior therapy and the other a CNS molecule hit by an unexpected toxicity finding in an animal study.
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