Isis Preps To Advance Two Drugs To Phase III In Rare Diseases
Executive Summary
Isis will target its APOCIII candidate to treat extremely and severely high triglycerides first, then move to broader populations. The strategy harkens back to the plan for cholesterol drug Kynamro, which has had a slow launch.
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