Voyager Therapeutics partnered with Novartis in a potential $1.7 billion deal. The collaboration will enable Novartis to use the gene therapy company’s capsid discovery platform to create new treatments for three undisclosed CNS targets. 

Gilead Sciences Inc. announced new results from the Phase 2/3 CAPELLA trial evaluating lenacapavir, the company’s investigational, long-acting HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, in heavily treatment-experienced people living with multi-drug resistant HIV.

Topline results from Gilead Sciences’ Phase II/III CAPELLA trial show that treatment with the company’s long-acting HIV-1 capsid inhibitor lenacapavir reduces HIV viral load better than placebo in heavily treated patients living with multidrug resistant HIV-1 infection.