New opportunity for orphan drug development in Japan: Early exploratory clinical trial bases promote drug translation from basic studies to clinical application

Intractable and Rare Diseases Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-97

  Song, Peipei ^a   Gao, Jianjun ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Tang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

autoimmune disease; clinical trial; Intractable and rare diseases; neuropsychiatric disorders; orphan drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866780366     PISSN: 21863644     EISSN: 2186361x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5582/irdr.2012.v1.2.95     Document Type: Article

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