AstraZeneca Hopes To Differentiate Benralizumab On Efficacy, Dosing Convenience
Executive Summary
AstraZeneca PLC is keeping a tight lid on Phase III data for its biologic for severe asthma, benralizumab, other than to say it met its primary endpoint in a pair of pivotal trials – but the pharma hopes to offer differentiating efficacy from GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. biologics already approved for this indication when it unveils the full datasets at a scientific meeting later this year.
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