Actelion CEO Jean-Paul Clozel: An Interview With “The Pink Sheet” DAILY (Part 1 of 2)
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Exec discusses the firm’s pulmonary arterial hypertension drug Tracleer and other endothelin receptor antagonists in Actelion’s pipeline.
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