ViiV Healthcare links with Janssen to investigate single-tablet regimen for maintenance treatment of HIV-1

12 June 2014

ViiV Healthcare today announced that they have entered into an agreement with Janssen R&D Ireland, a unit of US health care giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) for the development and commercialization of a single-tablet combining dolutegravir (Tivicay) and Janssen's non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor rilpivirine (Edurant).

For Viiv Healthcare, which is a joint venture with UK pharma major GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) as the major partner with Pfizer and Shionogi, this represents the first external collaboration to develop a single-tablet regimen with another company's branded product and builds on ViiV Healthcare's strategy to expand its portfolio of dolutegravir-based regimens, which started with the approval of dolutegravir for use in combination with other anti-retroviral medicinal products for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection. No financial terms of the collaboration have been revealed.

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