NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 11, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ACHN) today reported additional preliminary data from its on-going phase 1b clinical trial of ACH-1625 which demonstrated that the second dosing cohort receiving treatment with ACH-1625 achieved a mean 4.25 log10 reduction in HCV RNA after five-day monotherapy, with continued good safety and tolerability in patients with hepatitis C (HCV). ACH-1625 is an inhibitor of HCV NS3 protease that was discovered and is being developed by Achillion.
