Roche Enters Hearing-Loss Space In Risk-Sharing Venture With Inception, Versant
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The newly formed Inception 3 will work to bring small molecule candidates for hearing loss, based on technology licensed from Stanford University, to IND-filing stage, at which point Roche will have the option to buy out the program.
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