One CEO’s Push to Make Cancer Drugs and Condoms Great Again
- Australia’s Starpharma wants to make old drugs more potent
- CEO Fairley still faces challenges in driving profitability
Starpharma's VivaGel
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Jackie Fairley believes the way to make older drugs more potent is by re-packaging their chemicals.
Fairley’s biotechnology company, Starpharma Holdings Ltd., holds dozens of patents for ways to make medicines perform better. The Australian firm capitalized on one application of that technology by creating a gel to coat condoms to improve protection against sexually transmitted diseases and the spread of viruses like Zika through sex.