ProNAI Defects From Oligos to DDR As Sierra Oncology
Executive Summary
Sierra Oncology president and CEO Dr Nick Glover tells Mike Ward how the company is rebranding itself from its former incarnation ProNAI Therapeutics, armed with two in-licensed assets focused of DNA damage repair (DDR) and $100m in the bank.
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