( BARCELONA Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr ...)Vertex Pharmaceuticals Announces New Data for Investigational HCV,Protease Inhibitor Telaprevir to be Presented at 42nd Annual,Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver,(EASL),Health

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 11, 2007 - 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.

"Hepatitis C is a major global health problem with a significant unmet medical need. Despite treatment advancements in the last 10 years, there is an urgent need for new therapeutic options that can offer patients shorter course therapy and better efficacy," said John Alam, M.D., Executive Vice President, Medicines Development, and Chief Medical Officer of Vertex. "The data to be presented at EASL demonstrate the recent progress made in our clinical evaluation and understanding of telaprevir as a novel treatment for hepatitis C, underscoring our commitment to evaluate telaprevir's potential in important sub-populations, such as those with genotype non-1 hepatitis C."

Telaprevir is one of the most advanced specifically targeted antiviral therapies for HCV (STAT-C). STAT-Cs represent a new approach to hepatitis C treatment by directly targeting the enzymes the virus uses to replicate.

Oral Presentation: Telaprevir Demonstrates Potency Against Genotype 2, 3 and 4 in vitro

Chao Lin, Ph.D., of Vertex, will present an abstract titled, "Telaprevir (VX-950) is a Potent Inhibitor of H
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