Deals Of The Week: Novartis/Enanta, Ligand/Retrophin, Auxilium/Actelion, Amgen/Dako
Executive Summary
A prosaic week in biopharma deal-making leads DOTW to ponder a brain-computer interface specialist’s efforts to apply its technology to patients with severe communication limitations.
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