Guard­ing a $2 bil­lion fran­chise op­er­a­tion, Gilead hus­tles up its sN­DA for De­scovy. But will it work?

Gilead has two years to go as it works to tran­si­tion pa­tients from Tru­va­da to De­scovy be­fore the old­er drug sees an on­slaught of gener­ics slice and dice the mar­ket.

But they aren’t wast­ing a day.

The big biotech said to­day that they will use a pri­or­i­ty re­view vouch­er to hus­tle along the sup­ple­men­tal ap­pli­ca­tion to sell the drug to re­duce the risk of in­fec­tion among a vul­ner­a­ble HIV-neg­a­tive pop­u­la­tion. That will cut the re­view time down from 10 months to 6.

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