- Tesaro (TSRO -3.8%) secures an exclusive license agreement with China-based Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. for the development, registration, manufacture and commercialization of rolapitant in China. Specific financial terms are not disclosed.
- Rolapitant is an investigational neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor antagonist under development for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). The company's NDA is currently under FDA review with a PDUFA date of September 5.
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