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AZ signs multi-billion cancer R&D deal with Daiichi Sankyo

AstraZeneca is to raise $3.5 billion to fund a global development and marketing collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo, for an antibody-drug conjugate and potential new targeted cancer medicine,

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Lixiana hits the mark in catheter ablation trial

Daiichi Sankyo’s Lixiana was a late entrant to the novel oral anticoagulant (NOAC) category, but the Japanese drugmaker hopes new data in atrial fibrillation (AFib) could accelerate its gro

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Daiichi gets speedy FDA review for rare cancer drug

Daiichi Sankyo has been given a priority review from the FDA for pexidartinib, which is vying to become the first systemic drug therapy for rare cancer tenosynovial giant cell tumour (TGCT).

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Daiichi Sankyo takes option on diabetes stem cell start-up

Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo has joined an open innovation research initiative that will try to develop a therapy for type 1 diabetes based on insulin-producing cells.

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