NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 15, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ACHN), a leader in the discovery and development of treatments for the most challenging infectious diseases, today announced that its abstract titled “ACH-1625 Demonstrates Sustained Viral Suppression in Presence of Uncommon Drug Resistant HCV Variants: Pharmacokinetic, Pharmacodynamic and Clinical Virology Analysis of Phase I Study” has been accepted as a late breaking poster presentation at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) The Liver Meeting® 2010 being held October 29-November 2, 2010 in Boston.