Merck & Co. To Present New Data From Clinical Studies Evaluating Investigational Hepatitis C Treatment Grazoprevir/Elbasvir (MK-5172/MK-8742) At The 65th American Association for Study of Liver Diseases Annual Meeting
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that new data from clinical studies of the company’s investigational, oral, once-daily, fixed-dose combination chronic hepatitis C treatment grazoprevir/elbasvir (MK-5172/MK-8742) are scheduled to be presented at the 65th American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Annual Meeting, also known as The Liver Meeting®. The meeting is scheduled to take place at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, Mass., from Nov. 7 – 11, 2014.
“Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in the understanding of chronic hepatitis C and its treatment, but it is important that we continue to advance the development of therapies to treat diverse populations of HCV-infected patients,” said Dr. Eliav Barr, vice president, Infectious Diseases, Merck Research Laboratories. “Merck’s broad and systematic hepatitis C clinical development program is designed with this goal in mind, and is generating important insights into the potential of grazoprevir/elbasvir across multiple viral genotypes and patient populations."
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“Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in the understanding of chronic hepatitis C and its treatment, but it is important that we continue to advance the development of therapies to treat diverse populations of HCV-infected patients,” said Dr. Eliav Barr, vice president, Infectious Diseases, Merck Research Laboratories. “Merck’s broad and systematic hepatitis C clinical development program is designed with this goal in mind, and is generating important insights into the potential of grazoprevir/elbasvir across multiple viral genotypes and patient populations."
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