China’s SIMM, French Drugmaker Servier To Collaborate On Anti-Tumor Medicine R&D
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) and French pharmaceutical company Servier Laboratories signed an agreement on the R&D of targeted antitumor drug candidate lucitanib.
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