HCV is a highly lucrative space to be in right now- witness the huge spike in Pharmasset’s share price merely on the presentation of tantalizing Phase 1 data. An entirely new class of treatments are emerging, reshaping the HCV landscape and creating multi-billion dollar opportunities. The rush is on to create a better- no, the […]
Idenix: Two Steps Forward and One Step Back
It has happened before- just when things were beginning to look up, Idenix has taken another beating. This time, the experimental AIDS drug it had licensed to ViiV Healthcare, an affiliate of GSK, had been placed on clinical hold by the FDA. The compound, IDX899, a non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) had only begun Phase IIb […]
