Seven Clinical Trial Read-Outs Due In Q4

The last three months of the year should see data reporting from a number of key studies for novel products including Roche's emicizumab. Scrip takes a look at some of the more interesting studies expected by year end, with the help of analysts from Informa's Biomedtracker.

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Thanks to funding from the ALS Association's Ice Bucket Challenge and a partnership with Astellas Pharma Inc., Cytokinetics Inc. pursued Phase III development of its fast skeletal muscle troponin activator in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) despite its failure in the Phase IIb BENEFTI-ALS study in 2014. (Also see "Cytokinetics plunges as tirasemtiv fails to BENEFIT-ALS" - Scrip, 26 April, 2014.)

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