Gilead Sciences

Gilead Sciences is a research-based biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing medicines that is headquartered in Foster City, California and was founded in 1987. The firm also has locations in La Vernne, California; Oceanside California; San Dimas, California; Miami, Florida; Santa Monica, California; Seattle, Washington; El Segundo, California; and Emeryville, California.

Gilead Sciences specializes in developing and commercializing biopharmaceuticals for HIV/AIDS, liver disease, hematology, oncology, inflammation, respiratory diseases, highly infectious diseases, and viral diseases. Gilead partnered with Kyverna to develop engineering T cell immunotherapies to target autoimmune diseases. The collaboration involves Kyverna’s synthetic Treg platform and synNotch, a synthetic gene expression system from the Kite unit of Gilead.

Gilead Sciences actively participates in community partnerships with COMPASS Initiative, Gilead Lift, Gilead HIV Age Positively, TRANScend, and HepConnect.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, Gilead Sciences began evaluating patients and testing remdesivir in 600 patients with moderate COVID-19 symptoms. They also began treatment of 400 patients with severe symptoms. Their results are expected in May.

Gilead Sciences has made 12 investments, 3 lead investments, and 4 exits. Notable investments made by Gilead Sciences include: Precision BioSciences, Galapagos, Phenex Pharmaceuticals, Allogene Therapeutics, National AIDS Memorial, Tmunity Therapeutics, AlloVir, Goldfinch Biopharma, Lyndra Therapeutics, and Glympse Bio. Gilead has licensed rights to filgotinib, developed by Galapagos, for rheumatoid arthritis and GLPG1690 for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, both in late-stage clinical studies.