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Opinion and Comment

Nature Biotechnology 25, 1390–1393 (1 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/nbt1207-1390

Antivirals|[mdash]|an increasingly healthy investment

Brian McCarthy

The antiviral sector offers unmet medical needs, large patient markets, suboptimal standards of care and substantial profits for successful drug candidates. It is an area where biotech companies that advance drug candidates into clinical development can attract pharmaceutical partners.