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It cost exactly 11 billion for Gilead to "develop" Sofosbuvir

(they bought Pharmasset who discovered the drug [1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir#History



They didn’t buy an approved drug, they bought a clinical lead. They still spent a ton getting it approved.




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