Gilead and Vir Biotechnology Establish Clinical Collaboration
Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Vir Biotechnology, Inc. announced that the companies have entered into a clinical collaboration to assess novel therapeutic combination strategies to develop a functional remedy for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV).
The companies schedule to initiate a Phase 2 trial assessing combination therapy for both treatment-experienced and treatment-naïve people living with HBV. The multi-arm trial will gauge various combinations of selgantolimod, Gilead's investigational TLR-8 agonist; VIR-2218, Vir's investigational small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA); and a commercially-...