FDA clears Gilead's hepatitis D drug, four years after prior rejection
THE SO WHAT
Four years after a manufacturing and distribution-related rejection, Gilead finally gets Hepcludex cleared — the bottleneck wasn’t biology, it was CMC and supply. If you’re in therapeutics, treat manufacturing quality and regulatory operations as core IP, not back-office functions you can fix later.
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