CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that sustained virologic response (SVR) data from Study C208, which evaluated twice-daily dosing of Vertex’s investigational hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor telaprevir, will be presented in an oral presidential plenary session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) taking place Oct. 30 – Nov. 3, 2009 in Boston. Additionally, final results from PROVE 3 will be presented in an oral session at the conference. Results from a pooled analysis of PROVE 1 and PROVE 2 in “difficult-to-cure” patients, which include patients with factors potentially having an effect on SVR rates (viral load, race, age, sex, body mass index, genotype subtype and liver fibrosis stage), will be presented in a poster session.
