By Ron Leuty – Reporter, San Francisco Business Times
A generic version of Harvoni — one in a series of life-changing hepatitis C drugs Gilead Sciences Inc. introduced four years ago at a price of over $1,000 a pill — will hit the market early next year at a quarter the price of the branded drug.
But while lower-priced generics generally a problem for drug makers because they eat into revenue, Foster City-based Gilead (NASDAQ: GILD) is looking forward to the generic: It will keep control of the drug and expand its market.
The "authorized generics" of Harvoni and another Gilead hepatitis C drug, Epclusa, will be marketed under the flag of Asegua Therapeutics LLC, a new Gilead subsidiary.
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