Therapy Areas: AIDS & HIV
Investigational Lenacapavir Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for People with Multi-Drug Resistant HIV
24 June 2022 - - The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency adopted a positive opinion for investigational lenacapavir for the treatment of HIV-1 infection, in combination with other antiretroviral(s), in adults with multi-drug resistant HIV-1 infection for whom it is otherwise not possible to construct a suppressive anti-viral regimen, US-based biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) said.

The CHMP positive opinion is a scientific recommendation to the European Commission to grant marketing authorization in Europe and will be reviewed by the EC, which has the authority to authorize medicines in the 27 Member States of the European Union, as well as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

The final European Commission decision is expected later this year.

The positive opinion is supported by data from the Phase 2/3 CAPELLA trial, a double-blinded, placebo-controlled global multicenter study designed to evaluate the antiviral activity of lenacapavir administered every six months as a subcutaneous injection, in combination with other antiretroviral(s), in heavily treatment-experienced people with multi-drug resistant HIV-1 infection.

In this patient population of high unmet medical need, 81% (n=29/36) of participants receiving lenacapavir in addition to an optimized background regimen achieved an undetectable viral load (
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