John C. Martin, 69, Dies; Led Drugmaker in Breakthroughs
A chemist by training, he turned Gilead Sciences into a leading, and lucrative, innovator with single-pill treatments for H.I.V. and hepatitis C.
John C. Martin in 2006 with a bottle of Truvada, a groundbreaking treatment for H.I.V. made by his company, Gilead Sciences, in the Bay Area. Credit.Paul Sakuma/Associated Press
April 27, 2021, 6:43 p.m. ET
John C. Martin, who became a billionaire by developing and marketing a daily single-dose pill that transformed H.I.V. into a manageable disease and who popularized another drug that cures hepatitis C, died on March 30 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 69.
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