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Amgen’s Blincyto gets approval in Japan

By Staff Report / Monday, September 24th, 2018 / Comments Off on Amgen’s Blincyto gets approval in Japan

Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen announced Sept. 24 that its leukemia treatment Blincyto had received approval from Japanese regulators. The drug is the first approval for the Japanese joint venture Amgen Astellas BioPharma and uses the company’s bi-specific T cell engager, or BiTE platform, which helps the body’s immune system target cancer cells. Blincyto has…

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