Hanmi To Step Up Global Drug Development As Lilly Returns BTK Rights
Executive Summary
Following Lilly’s decision to return rights to a BTK inhibitor it had licensed in from Hanmi, the South Korean pharma considers independently developing the molecule for other indications and vows to speed up development of other global drug programs.
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