Deals Of The Week: GSK/HGSI, Daiichi Sankyo/Coherus
Executive Summary
GSK/Human Genome story takes a sharp turn, but does the big pharma’s hostile bid expose greater interest in cardiovascular drug darapladib than it is admitting?
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