Blood Disorders Overtake Cancer On EMA’s PRIME Scheme
Executive Summary
uniQure has become the third company to get accepted on the European Medicines Agency’s PRIME (priority medicines) scheme for a gene therapy for hemophilia, making hematology-hemostaseology the most common therapeutic areas for products on the scheme.
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