WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BG Medicine, on behalf of the HRP Initiative, today announced that Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) has joined BG Medicine, Merck, AstraZeneca, and Philips as the newest member of the Initiative. The HRP Initiative is a pre-competitive industry collaboration that is focused on discovering and developing novel blood tests and imaging methods to find individuals with high-risk plaque disease before the occurrence of the first cardiovascular event.
