CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that 6 abstracts related to its investigational hepatitis C protease inhibitor telaprevir have been accepted for presentation at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), November 2-6, 2007, and are being published online by the AASLD. Included in these abstracts are planned presentations of interim data from PROVE 1 and PROVE 2, two randomized, controlled Phase 2 studies of telaprevir. Vertex is developing telaprevir in collaboration with Tibotec.