Ziritaxestat Failure Could Spell End For Gilead/Galapagos Pact

IPF And Systemic Sclerosis Trials Abandoned

The Galapagos and Gilead partnership has had a tough few months and the failure of ziritaxestat, plus the decision not to develop filgotinib Stateside for rheumatoid arthritis, is calling into question the merits of the whole collaboration for the US biotech.

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Testing times for the Galapagos and Gilead partnership • Source: Shutterstock

The multi-billion dollar R&D alliance inked by Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Galapagos NV was seen as a model partnership in the pharma industry but another late-stage disappointment, this time for the fibrotic disease candidate ziritaxestat, has left the relationship hanging by a thread.

Galapagos has announced that it is halting the ISABELA Phase III program for ziritaxestat which involved two identically designed studies...

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