MedCity News February 23, 2024
GSK and Vir Biotechnology have ended their influenza collaboration, a move that follows last year’s Phase 2 failure for one of the partnered programs. Vir is now free to continue its flu research on its own, but the company says it’s actively pursuing other partners.
GSK and Vir Biotechnology struck up their influenza R&D collaboration three years ago, aiming to build on a respiratory drug relationship forged at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The British pharmaceutical giant ended the Covid alliance last year. Now the influenza partnership is winding down too.
The two companies have terminated their research collaboration on Vir’s antibodies for influenza, Vir said in its report of fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results on...