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Marion Bamberger¹, Nicholas Moore², Philippe Lechat³

¹Laboratoire Bristol Myers Squibb, Rueil Malmaison, France.

|July 10, 2016

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design adaptatif développement clinique des médicaments phase I phase II phase III phase IV recherche clinique réglementaire

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