With New Data For A Drug In Dispute, Aragon Raises $50 Million
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The San Diego biotech’s Series D round will support continued development of a drug that Medivation claims was included in the same license that covered the recently approved prostate cancer drug Xtandi.
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