Pfizer Adds To Specialty Care Division With Purchase Of FoldRx
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Focused on protein misfolding disorders, FoldRx has a lead candidate under review at EMA for transthyretin amyloid polyneuropathy.
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