Shareholders Approve Inhibetex Therapeutics Inc. Acquisition of FermaVir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inhibitex, Inc. (NASDAQ: INHX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of products to treat or prevent serious infectious diseases, announced today that the stockholders of both Inhibitex and FermaVir Pharmaceuticals Inc. have approved the companies’ previously announced merger agreement. The transaction is expected to become effective today. The transaction adds FV-100, a highly potent, orally bioavailable bicyclic nucleoside analogue for the treatment of herpes zoster infections (shingles) and a series of preclinical compounds for the treatment of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease to the Inhibitex pipeline.