Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2015
European Medicines Agency validates Gilead’s marketing application for single tablet regimen containing rilpivirine, emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide (R/F/TAF) for HIV treatment
20 August 2015 - Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced that the company’s Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for an investigational, once-daily single tablet regimen that combines emtricitabine 200 mg, tenofovir alafenamide 25 mg and rilpivirine 25 mg (R/F/TAF) has been fully validated and is now under evaluation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide are marketed by Gilead Sciences and rilpivirine is marketed by Janssen Sciences Ireland UC, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
The data included in the application support the use of R/F/TAF for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults and pediatric patients 12 years and older.
“With this validation, R/F/TAF is now the third TAF-based filing under review by the EMA as we advance a portfolio of new treatment options that may offer high efficacy and favorable safety profiles,” said Norbert Bischofberger, PhD, Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer, Gilead Sciences. “The R/F/TAF filing also represents the next step in our collaboration with Janssen to develop HIV treatments that potentially meet the diverse needs of people living with HIV.”
TAF is a novel investigational nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) that has demonstrated high antiviral efficacy at a dose less than one-tenth that of Gilead’s Viread® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, TDF), as well as improved renal and bone laboratory parameters as compared to TDF in clinical trials in combination with other antiretroviral agents.
