Radius Ready To Face Off With Amgen At ASBMR
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Conducting a large osteoporosis development program is a path that Amgen Inc. has been down before, but it's a make-or-break journey for Radius Health, which had one of the most successful initial public offerings during the recent biotechnology IPO boom based on optimism about its drug abaloparatide.
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