Nippon Shinyaku Licenses Leukemia Drug Marketing Rights In Korea To Korean Company
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Nippon Shinyaku signed a license agreement Dec. 4 with Korean drug seller BL&H and provided the company exclusive marketing rights to acute promyelocytic leukemia drug Trisenox (arsenic trioxide) in South Korea. Nippon Shinyaku obtained the manufacturing and marketing rights in Japan and Korea from U.S. drug maker Cephalon in 2002, and started manufacturing and marketing it in Japan in 2004, but the company has not marketed the drug in South Korea. Payment details were not disclosed. BL&H plans to market the drug in spring 2010. (Click here for more - Japanese language