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Article Excerpt
- First Hepatitis C Antiviral Drug to Reach This Stage of Development -
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of human viral and other infectious diseases, today announced that it has completed enrollment of its phase IIb clinical trial of valopicitabine (NM283) with more than 170 treatment refractory hepatitis C genotype 1 patients. The company believes that this is the first time a direct antiviral drug has reached this stage of clinical testing for this patient population.
"Today, there are very limited treatment options for treatment refractory hepatitis C patients, or patients that have failed prior treatment with existing hepatitis C therapies. Among this patient population, approximately 10 percent respond to retreatment with the current standard of care, pegylated interferon plus ribavirin," said Jean-Pierre Sommadossi, Ph.D.,...
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