First Wave of Phase III Development Programme for Grazoprevir/Elbasvir is Fully Enrolled; Merck Plans to Submit NDA in 2015
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Merck (MSD outside the US and Canada) has announced the presentation of results from a multi-arm Phase II
clinical trial evaluating grazoprevir/elbasvir (MK-5172/MK-8742, the company’s investigational NS3/4A protease inhibitor and NS5A inhibitor, respectively) with or without ribavirin (RBV) in treatment-naïve and previously-treated (with peg-interferon/ribavirin [PR]) patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 (GT1) infection -- the C-WORTHy study (Parts A and B).
The final results were presented in oral sessions at the 65th American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Annual Meeting (also known as The Liver Meeting) and published as separate papers online in The Lancet.
“Merck is committed to developing an efficacious, well-tolerated therapy suitable for a broad spectrum of patients with HCV,” said Dr Eliav Barr, Vice President, Infectious Diseases, Merck Research Laboratories. “We are encouraged by the findings for grazoprevir/elbasvir in the C-WORTHy trial and look forward to advancing our broad Phase III programme, which includes hard-to-cure patients that are of the highest need and least studied to date.”
Interim results from the C-WORTHy study were presented in April 2014 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and announced by Merck.
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