Deal Watch: PDS And Edge Merge To Progress HPV-Linked Cancer Immunotherapy
Executive Summary
Immunotherapy firms Edge and PDS announce planned merger, while Telix advances its prostate cancer strategy by acquiring ANMI. Kyowa Hakko Kirin is signed up to distribute GlaxoSmithKline's Phase III CKD-associated anemia product daprodustat in Japan.
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