ThromboGenics May Get $490M From Novartis Eye Pact - Mar. 16, 2012

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Friday, March 16, 2012  |   |   |   |  The Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum (PCF) International Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress, www.InternationalPharmaCongress.com, May 14-16, 2012, takes place at the Hilton Budapest in Budapest, Hungary and features tracks on EU, CEE, MEA, global compliance audits and monitoring, FCPA and global anticorruption, global transparency, discourse and aggregate spend and global compliance case studies. 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