Astellas Offloads Japan Product Basket To Private Equity Group

Astellas has joined the growing ranks of research-based pharma firms offloading their older products in Japan, amid rising pricing and generic pressures and an increasing desire to focus on innovation.

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Astellas Pharma Inc. is divesting a portfolio of 16 of its older drugs in Japan, in the latest in a string of similar moves by innovative pharma firms in the country to move out of low-margin products amid rising price pressures and generic competition.

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