Peter Kolchinsky 8/20/25 Peter Kolchinsky 8/20/25

How GCEA stopped us from sandbagging our pricing and peak sales estimates for Cidara’s flu drug

GCEA shows us how to value a medicine not in terms of what you’d pay for the stock but what society should be willing to pay for the product itself. In this article, we perform GCEA for Cidara’s CD388, an anti-flu drug candidate.

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How GCEA stopped us from sandbagging our pricing and peak sales estimates for Cidara’s flu drug