NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ACHN), a leader in the discovery and development of small molecule drugs to combat the most challenging infectious diseases, today announced that the Company has begun dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of ACH-2684, a novel pan-genotypic protease inhibitor being developed for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
