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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedGilead Sciences gains FDA approval for Emtriva. (Life Sciences).
Chemical Market Reporter, July, 2003 by Krause, Carey
GILEAD SCIENCES Inc. has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Emtriva (emtricitabine), an antiretroviral. Estimates for Emtriva as a co-formulated product with Gilead's first HIV drug Viread (tenofovir) top $1 billion, upon a projected launch in 2005.
The FDA approved Emtriva to treat HIV infection in adults in combination with other antiretrovirals. Emtriva is available to wholesalers at an annual price of roughly $3,034, on par with GlaxoSmithKline PLC'S (GSK) Epivir (lamivudine), a competing nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
Gilead gained Emtriva in its 2003 acquisition of Triangle Pharmaceuticals Inc. Similar to Viread, a nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor, the drug's once-daily dosing makes it an...
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