Gilead backs Biktarvy charge with new switching data

7 March 2018

Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD) has upped the ante in its tussles with ViiV Healthcare in the HIV space.

Gilead has presented new data supporting a switch to its Biktarvy (bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide) from ViiV Healthcare’s Triumeq (abacavir/dolutegravir/lamivudine), in virologically suppressed adults with HIV.

Biktarvy was only approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month, prompting ViiV, which is majority-owned by UK pharma major GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), to file patent infringement litigation against Gilead over its use of the integrase strand transfer inhibitor bictegravir, in the USA and Canada.

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