FibroGen Misses In First Of Two Pivotal DMD Trials
Executive Summary
The biotech’s pamrevlumab fails a Phase III study in non-ambulatory Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but the antibody still has a shot in ambulatory DMD, as well as IPF and pancreatic cancer.
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