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Otsuka Pharmaceutical tackles leukemia and other blood cancers
Cancer has one of the highest mortality rates of all diseases worldwide. In Japan too it is the number one cause of death, and naturally, there is an urgent need for new drugs.
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- *Acquired by Takeda in 2017
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Astex Pharmaceuticals (U.K.)
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Osaka University (Japan)
In 2017, we entered into a 바카라 루쥬 540mprehensive 바카라 루쥬 540llaborations agreement on advanced research with IFReC (Osaka University Immunology Frontier Research Center). Otsuka supports further development of IFReC's advanced basic research on immunology with the aim of 바카라 루쥬 540mbining the research results with original research by Otsuka, leading to the development of new drugs for the benefit of all.
