Pfizer licenses therapy for autoimmune diseases
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Pfizer is licensing a pre-clinical therapy for patients with rare autoimmune conditions, paying $25 million upfront for what the company sees as a potentially better alternative to a treatment derived from human blood plasma.
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