HCV Patient Access: Trek Therapeutics Takes The Road Less Traveled

Biopharma has been talking for years about the necessity for a new business model, one that reconciles the aim of expanding patient access to the latest medicine at a price point conducive to supporting future innovations. Slowly, however, complacency is giving way to experimentation. Those big pharma imperatives of size, scale and reach mean fresh opportunities for niche players willing to operate at the margin – as overall industry sales build toward the trillion-dollar mark, can there be lucre in the leftovers?

In a first for biopharma, a team of industry veterans from the virology field has seized on the precedent of...