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Hep C Studies on Faldaprevir Will Be Heard at EASL

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April 16, 2013

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Studies with and without interferon on faldaprevir (Boehringer Ingelheim’s Hepatitis C drug), will be presented at the EASL annual liver meeting this month.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s STARTVerso 1 Phase 3 hepatitis C data to be presented at EASL Congress

Published on April 10, 2013

Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that data from its pivotal STARTVerso™ 1 Phase 3 hepatitis C clinical trial have been accepted for oral presentation as a late-breaker at the International Liver Congress™ 2013: 48th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), taking place from April 24-28 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The STARTVerso™ 1 trial evaluated faldaprevir (BI 201335), an investigational oral protease inhibitor specifically designed to target and inhibit viral replication in the liver, in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin (PegIFN/RBV). The study was conducted in treatment-naïve patients with genotype-1 infection, the most common and one of the most challenging types of hepatitis C to cure.

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