China's EpimAb Advances Bispecific Antibody To Rival Janssen Candidate
Executive Summary
EpimAb's business development officer tells Scrip dosing has started in a Phase I/II trial assessing the China-based biotech's lead cancer molecule EMB01, an EGFR-cMET bispecific antibody.
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