Raltegravir
Regulatory milestones approvals, filings & regulatory actions · 15 recorded
| Milestone | Jurisdiction | Brand | Indication | Date | Sentence it was read from |
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| Filed HIV infectious disease 2 milestones | |||||
| Filed | US (FDA) | ISENTRESS | HIV infectious disease | 2016-10-25 | “The FDA accepted for review a supplemental NDA for a once-daily formulation of ISENTRESS (raltegravir)” merck.com ↗ |
| Filed | EU (EMA) | ISENTRESS | HIV infectious disease | 2016-07-22 | “Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the file for the investigational once-daily formulation of ISENTRESS for review.” merck.com ↗ |
| Approved Indication not stated 3 milestones | |||||
| Label expansions (11) | US (FDA) | ISENTRESS HD | — | 2009-01-29 – 2020-07-14 | fda.gov ↗ |
| Approved | EU (EMA) | Isentress | — | 2007-12-19 | europa.eu ↗ |
| Approved | US (FDA) | ISENTRESS HD | — | 2007-10-12 | fda.gov ↗ |
Trials 189 · started per year
News releases announcing trial results or a regulatory action · 22
| Date | Issuer | Release |
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| 2025-05-08 | Lupin Limited | Regulatory Lupin Receives Approval from U.S. FDA for Raltegravir Tablets USP, 600 mg lupin.com ↗
Lupin Limited (Lupin) today announced that it has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application for Raltegravir Tablets USP, 600 mg. |
| 2024-11-08 | Lupin Limited | Regulatory Lupin Receives Tentative Approval from U.S. FDA for Raltegravir Tablets, USP lupin.com ↗ |
| 2017-11-29 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory Merck Receives FDA Approval for ISENTRESS® (raltegravir), in Combination with Other Antiretroviral Agents, for the Treatment of HIV-1 Infection in Newborns Weighing at Least 2 kg merck.com ↗
With this FDA approval, ISENTRESS becomes the only integrase inhibitor approved in the U.S. for the treatment of HIV-1, in combination with other antiretroviral agents, for neonates weighing at least 2 kg. |
| 2017-07-24 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Results Merck Announces Week 96 Results from ONCEMRK, A Study Evaluating Once-Daily ISENTRESS® HD (raltegravir), in Combination with Other Antiretroviral Agents, for the Treatment of HIV-1 Infection in Appropriate Patients merck.com ↗
The Week 96 results reaffirm the comparable efficacy and safety of ISENTRESS HD. |
| 2017-05-30 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory Merck Receives FDA Approval of ISENTRESS® HD (raltegravir), a New Once-Daily Option, in Combination with Other Antiretroviral Agents, for the Treatment of HIV-1 Infection in Appropriate Patients merck.com ↗ |
| 2017-05-19 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory Merck Receives CHMP Positive Opinion Recommending Approval of ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) 600 mg in the European Union merck.com ↗ |
| 2016-07-22 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Results Data for Merck’s Investigational Once-Daily Formulation of ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) Show That at Week 48, a Regimen Containing the Once-Daily Dosing Formulation… merck.com ↗
Furthermore, the study showed comparable rates of reported drug-related clinical adverse events and rates of discontinuation between the two treatment groups. |
| 2016-02-22 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Results Merck’s Investigational Once-Daily Formulation of ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) Meets Primary and Secondary Endpoints in Pivotal Phase 3 Study merck.com ↗
In addition, the secondary endpoints of tolerability and immunologic efficacy (as measured by change from baseline in CD4 cell counts at Week 48) were comparable. |
| 2014-06-24 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory FDA Accepts Merck’s NDA for Fixed-Dose Combination of Raltegravir with Lamivudine merck.com ↗
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the New Drug Application (NDA) for a fixed-dose combination (FDC) of raltegravir with lamivudine for the treatment of HIV-1 infection (MK-0518B) has been accepted for standard review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). |
| 2014-03-05 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Results New 96-Week ACTG Study Results Presented at CROI 2014; First Large Study Comparing ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) Regimen to Two Protease Inhibitor Regimens in Previously Untreated Adults with HIV-1 merck.com ↗
On the other co-primary endpoint of failure due to tolerability, the ISENTRESS and darunavir/r regimens were superior to the atazanavir/r regimen. |
| 2014-01-08 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory Merck Receives FDA Approval for ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) for Pediatric Oral Suspension merck.com ↗
With this approval, ISENTRESS is now indicated in combination with other antiretroviral (ARV) agents for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in patients four weeks of age and older. |
| 2013-07-01 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory FDA Approves New U.S. Labeling for ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) to Include 240-Week Results from STARTMRK Study of ISENTRESS Containing Regimen in Previously Untreated HIV-1 Infected Adult Patients merck.com ↗
The updated prescribing information now includes 240-week results from the STARTMRK study, the longest double-blind Phase III non-inferiority study evaluating an integrase inhibitor in treatment-naïve adult patients with HIV-1 infection. |
| 2013-03-06 | GlaxoSmithKline | Results ViiV Healthcare presents data from Phase III study of dolutegravir vs raltegravir in treatment-experienced adults with HIV-1 gsk.com ↗
Differences in treatment outcome in favour of the dolutegravir arm were driven by greater virologic response: at Week 24, 15% of patients receiving the dolutegravir regimen had virologic non-response vs. 24% of patients receiving the raltegravir regimen. |
| 2012-07-24 | Gilead Sciences | Results Gilead’s HIV Integrase Inhibitor Elvitegravir Dosed Once Daily as Effective as Twice-Daily Raltegravir Over Two Years of Therapy in Pivotal Phase 3 Study gilead.com ↗
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced two-year Phase 3 clinical trial results showing that the integrase inhibitor elvitegravir dosed once daily is non-inferior to raltegravir dosed twice daily among treatment-experienced HIV patients. |
| 2012-07-22 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Results ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) in Combination Therapy Demonstrated Long-Term Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability in Previously Untreated Adult Patients with HIV-1 for up to 240 Weeks merck.com ↗
In this pre-specified exploratory analysis of ISENTRESS ® (raltegravir) 400 mg Film-coated Tablets in combination therapy in previously untreated (treatment-naïve) adult HIV-1 patients, virologic efficacy was better than the efavirenz-based regimen at 240 weeks. |
| 2012-05-21 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory FDA Approves New Labeling for ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) to Include 156-Week Data Demonstrating Long-Term Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability with ISENTRESS in Combination Therapy in Previously Untreated Adult Patients Infected with HIV-1 merck.com ↗ |
| 2012-04-02 | GlaxoSmithKline | Results Shionogi-ViiV Healthcare announces initial data from pivotal phase III study of dolutegravir in HIV gsk.com ↗
The study met its primary objective, demonstrating non-inferiority of dolutegravir to raltegravir. |
| 2012-01-06 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Regulatory FDA Approves Merck’s ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) for Use in Children Ages Two Years and Older as Part of HIV-1 Combination Therapy merck.com ↗
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the use of ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) in combination with other antiretroviral (ARV) medicines, for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in pediatric patients two years of age and older and weighing at least 10 kg. |
| 2011-10-13 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Results Merck’s ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) in Combination Therapy Demonstrated Virological and Immunological Efficacy Versus the Efavirenz Regimen at 192 Weeks of Treatment in Previously Untreated Adults with HIV-1 merck.com ↗
These results offer further insight into the virologic and immunologic response seen with ISENTRESS in combination therapy when compared to efavirenz at 192 weeks in treatment-naïve adult patients with HIV-1,” said Dr. Jürgen Rockstroh, University of Bonn, Bonn-Venusberg, Germany, who presented the data. |
| 2011-09-19 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Results Merck’s ISENTRESS® (raltegravir) in Combination Therapy Demonstrated Efficacy and Tolerability in an Observational Trial in a Diverse Population of Adults with HIV-1 Regardless of Gender or Race merck.com ↗ |
| 2011-07-20 | Gilead Sciences | Results Gilead's Investigational Antiretroviral Elvitegravir Once Daily Non-Inferior to Raltegravir Twice Daily at 48 Weeks gilead.com ↗
Discontinuation rates due to adverse events, and safety and resistance profiles were comparable in both arms of the study. |
| 2011-03-23 | Gilead Sciences | Results Phase III Clinical Trial of Gilead's Investigational Elvitegravir Meets 48-Week Primary Objective gilead.com ↗
The primary endpoint analysis indicated that 59.0 percent of patients in the elvitegravir arm compared to 57.8 percent in the raltegravir arm (95% CI for the difference: -6.0% to +8.2%) achieved and maintained a viral load of less than 50 copies/mL through week 48. |
All press releases naming this drug 26 releases
Evidence & citations 21 cited values
Every value below carries the sentence it was read from. 261 sources stand behind the page.
| Field | Value | Cited text |
|---|---|---|
| Known as | Raltegravir | “Generic names: Efavirenz/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir, Lamivudine/Zidovudine, Emtricitabine, Lamivudine, Abacavir/Lamivudine, Zidovudine, Abacavir/Lamivudine/Zidovudine,...” NCT00624195 ↗243“Additional ARVs provided for use in this study included fixed dose combination lamivudine/zidovudine (3TC/ZDV), lamivudine (3TC), zidovudine (ZDV), tenofovir (TDF), fixed dose...” NCT00955968 ↗ “ART that concurrently contains combinations of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), such as efavirenz, and protease-inhibitors (PIs), such as...” NCT05044962 ↗ “The integrase (INI) inhibitors (for example, bictegravir, dolutegravir, elvitegravir/cobicistat, and raltegravir) will be administered in combination with TAF/FTC, as appropriate.” NCT04442737 ↗ “The following agents are allowed as part of the ART regimen: nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, raltegravir, dolutegravir (DTG), rilpivirine, and maraviroc.” NCT03060447 ↗ “We randomly assigned for 48 weeks 22 patients to continue their current first line regimen of Truvada® plus Kaletra® or intensify it with Maraviroc and Raltegravir.” PMID 25320633 ↗ Oct 2014 “Participants in Cohort 1 received a combination of dolutegravir (DTG) or raltegravir (RAL) plus two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs).” NCT03332095 ↗ “28 subjects will change from their normal cART treatment to Raltegravir, which will be given at the standard dose of 400 mg p.o. b.i.d. for 24 months.” NCT02210715 ↗ “Tenofovir+Emtricitabine+Third agent (Including an integrase inhibitor raltegravir or dolutegravir or cobicistat-boosted elvitegravir” NCT02302547 ↗ “change of therapy will include raltegravir which is one of currently recommended medications to treat HIV in Canada.” NCT02691065 ↗ “efavirenz (EFV), rilpivirine (RPV), raltegravir (RAL), dolutegravir (DTG), maraviroc (MVC), or nevirapine (NVP)” NCT02469246 ↗ |
| Known as | Insentress | “Raltegravir (RAL) 400 mg (Insentress®): twice daily (1 tablet bid), with food” NCT02273765 ↗ |
| Known as | ISENTRESS | “Pilot, Open-label, Randomized, Single-center Study to Asses a Simplification Strategy From Protease Inhibitors to Raltegravir: Once Daily Isentress (ODIS)” NCT00941083 ↗19“Raltegravir (RAL, ISENTRESS®) 400 mg tablets will be administered as one 400 mg oral tablet PO twice daily (800 mg per day) after a meal.” NCT02212379 ↗ “Effects of Raltegravir (Isentress®) on Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism and Mitochondrial Function in Healthy Volunteers” NCT00772720 ↗ “Isentress® (raltegravir) 400 mg two times a day (BID) added to current antiretroviral treatment with counseling” NCT02247687 ↗ “Multiple Oral Dose Pharmacokinetics of Raltegravir (Isentress®) in Healthy Male and Female Volunteers” NCT02182375 ↗ “Isentress® (Raltegravir 400 mg)1 tablet twice a day + Truvada® (FTC & Tenofovir) 1 tablet” NCT02351908 ↗ “Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir 400/100 mg) + Isentress (Raltegravir 400 mg) twice-daily” NCT00752856 ↗ “Raltegravir (RAL) 400 mg (Isentress®): twice daily (1 tablet bid), with food” NCT02273765 ↗ “raltegravir : 400 mg x 2/day, 400 mg in one pill of Isentress® BID.” NCT01605890 ↗ “Drug: Isentress® (Raltegravir, 400 mg every 12 hours)” NCT01480713 ↗ “or TDF/XTC Gé + Isentress® QD 1200 mg when available” NCT04051970 ↗ |
| Known as | Isentress - Raltegravir | “Isentress - Raltegravir” NCT00809718 ↗1“Isentress (raltegravir)” NCT01902186 ↗ |
| Known as | Isentress hd | ChEMBL registry synonym — accepted as the source's own label CHEMBL254316 ↗ |
| Known as | L-000900612 | ChEMBL registry synonym — accepted as the source's own label CHEMBL254316 ↗ |
| Known as | L-000900612 POTASSIUM SALT | ChEMBL registry synonym — accepted as the source's own label CHEMBL254316 ↗ |
| Known as | MK-0518 | “Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Reformulated Raltegravir (MK-0518) 1200 mg Once Daily in Combination With TRUVADA™ in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 Infected,...” NCT02131233 ↗13“Raltegravir (MK-0518) is an HIV-1 integrase inhibitor with potent in vitro activity against HIV-1 strains including those resistant to currently available antiretroviral drugs.” NCT00515827 ↗ “A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Raltegravir (MK0518) in HIV-Infected Patients Failing Current Antiretroviral Therapies (0518-019)” NCT00293254 ↗ “Raltegravir (MK-0518) 400 mg tablets” NCT02116660 ↗ “Raltegravir (Isentress, MK-0518)” NCT00485264 ↗ “Raltegravir (Isentress/MK-0518)” NCT00781287 ↗ “raltegravir (MK-0518)” NCT00460382 ↗ “Raltegravir, MK-0518” NCT00554398 ↗ “Raltegravir (MK0518)” NCT00520897 ↗ |
| Known as | MK-0518 POTASSIUM | ChEMBL registry synonym — accepted as the source's own label CHEMBL254316 ↗ |
| Known as | RAL | “Additional ARVs provided for use in this study included fixed dose combination lamivudine/zidovudine (3TC/ZDV), lamivudine (3TC), zidovudine (ZDV), tenofovir (TDF), fixed dose...” NCT00955968 ↗31“To compare changes over 48 weeks in bone mineral density (BMD) between participants randomized to lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) + raltegravir (RAL) or LPV/r + 2-3...” PMID 23921615 ↗ Sep 2013 “The NEAT001/ANRS143 trial demonstrated noninferiority of ritonavir-boosted darunavir combined with either raltegravir (RAL + DRV/r) or tenofovir disoproxil...” PMID 30365452 ↗ Dec 2018 “intensify their therapy with Raltegravir(RAL):1 Protease inhibitor plus 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor plus RAL or 1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase...” NCT00773708 ↗ “the objective of this study was to assess the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile in older HIV-infected subjects (>60 years) switching combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) to a...” PMID 25777188 ↗ Jan 2015 “DTG will be replaced by Raltegravir (RAL) 1200 QD, maintaining the other two drugs that constituted the triple therapy established before the inclusion of the patient in the study.” NCT03732625 ↗ “Raltegravir (RAL), the first approved antiretroviral (ARV) in a new class called integrase inhibitors, works by preventing integration of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).” NCT01173510 ↗ “Participants in Cohort 1 received a combination of dolutegravir (DTG) or raltegravir (RAL) plus two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs).” NCT03332095 ↗ “Raltegravir (RAL, ISENTRESS®) 400 mg tablets will be administered as one 400 mg oral tablet PO twice daily (800 mg per day) after a meal.” NCT02212379 ↗ “combination of Raltegravir (RAL) 400mg BID + Atazanavir (ATV) 300 mg BID in Antiretroviral (ARV)-experienced subjects” NCT00814879 ↗ “To assess the safety, tolerability and efficacy of Raltegravir (RAL) when combined with other antiretroviral drugs” NCT01201239 ↗ |
| Known as | Raltegravir (Isentress) | “Raltegravir (Isentress)” NCT01204905 ↗1“raltegravir: Isentress” NCT01318096 ↗ |
| Known as | raltegravir (MK 0518) | “raltegravir (MK 0518)” NCT00614458 ↗ |
| Known as | raltegravir = MK-0518, brand name Isentress | “raltegravir = MK-0518, brand name Isentress” NCT01047995 ↗ |
| Known as | Raltegravir monopotassium salt | ChEMBL registry synonym — accepted as the source's own label CHEMBL254316 ↗ |
| Known as | Raltegravir potassium | “Drug: Raltegravir potassium” NCT01022476 ↗ |
| Known as | Raltegravir potassium component of dutrebis | ChEMBL registry synonym — accepted as the source's own label CHEMBL254316 ↗ |
| Known as | Raltegravir potassium salt | ChEMBL registry synonym — accepted as the source's own label CHEMBL254316 ↗ |
| Known as | RTF | “Raltegravir (RTF) 600 mg two tablets by mouth once per day” NCT03954327 ↗ |
| Action | Inhibit | “Raltegravir is a strong and selective inhibitor of HIV integrase.” NCT00485264 ↗ |
| Modality | Other / unclassified | “Raltegravir is an integrase inhibitor” NCT00870363 ↗ |
| Route | Oral | “MK0518 oral tablets 200 mg b.i.d, for 24 weeks” NCT00105157 ↗ |