Astellas Pharma ends development of dust mite allergy vaccine

Astellas Pharma will book an impairment loss of just under USD 400m due to three less-than-successful drug programs. One of the programs, concerning a DNA vaccine against dust mite-induced allergic rhinitis, has now been terminated.
Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by christian bundgaard, translated by daniel pedersen

Japanese Astellas Pharma has been less than fortunate when it comes to its clinical development programs.

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