CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX) today announced that key data on sustained viral response (SVR) rates in both treatment-naïve and treatment-failure genotype 1 hepatitis C (HCV) patients who received telaprevir-based treatment regimens will be presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD), October 31 – November 4, 2008 in San Francisco. In addition, week 4 and week 12 data from the C208 study exploring a twice-daily telaprevir dosing regimen in 160 genotype 1 HCV patients will be presented. A total of six abstracts related to Vertex’s HCV protease inhibitor telaprevir clinical program were accepted for presentation. The abstracts are being published today and will be available online at the AASLD website (www.aasld.org). Vertex is developing telaprevir in collaboration with Tibotec.
