Jubilant Life Sciences’ subsidiary -- Jubilant Generics has entered into a non-exclusive Licensing Agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. that will grant Jubilant the right to register, manufacture and sell Gilead's investigational drug, remdesivir, a potential therapy for Covid-19 in 127 countries including India. These countries consist of nearly all low-income and lower middle-income countries, as well as several upper middle and high-income countries that face significant obstacles to healthcare access.
Under the licensing agreement, Jubilant will have the right to receive a technology transfer of the Gilead manufacturing process to scale up production to enable expedited access of the medicine to Covid-19 patients upon approvals by regulatory authorities in respective countries.
Jubilant Life Sciences is an integrated global pharmaceutical and life sciences company engaged in Pharmaceuticals, Life Science Ingredients and Drug Discovery Solutions.