BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New data supporting the clinical development of telaprevir (VX-950), one of the most advanced investigational oral protease inhibitors for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, will be presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) in Barcelona this week. In total, nine abstracts related to telaprevir have been accepted for presentation at the EASL conference, including an abstract that describes telaprevir activity against genotypes 2, 3 and 4 in vitro. A late-breaker oral presentation will take place on Saturday, April 14 at 5:45 p.m. Central European Summer Time (11:45 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time). Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) is developing telaprevir in collaboration with Tibotec.
