Orphazyme Raises Funds, Approaching Markets With Novel Niemann-Pick Therapy
Lead Compound A Heat Shock Protein Amplifier
Executive Summary
Denmark’s Orphazyme has raised more funds to market its lead product, the heat shock protein amplifier, arimoclomol, in the US and Europe, and to evaluate the compound for other lysosomal storage and neurodegenerative disorders.
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