ViiV Healthcare can build on its highly successful two-drug HIV treatment regimens by creating longer-acting products using Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc.’ proprietary drug delivery platform, which will allow more fluid – and thus medicine - to be absorbed by the body than at present, the company’s global head of R&D has told Scrip.
ViiV Aims To Extend HIV Drug Durations With Halozyme’s Technology
Duo Will Expand Body’s Intake Capacity For Injected Medicines
ViiV Healthcare’s head of R&D tells Scrip that extending the durations of its long acting HIV treatments is possible using drug delivery technology from Halozyme Therapeutics to expand the body’s capacity to absorb injected medicines.
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