Gilead Announces Hepatitis C Data

Gilead Sciences

announced Saturdayinterim data from the ongoing Phase 2 ELECTRON study examining a 12-week course of therapy with the investigational nucleotide sofosbuvir (formerly referred to as GS-7977), the NS5A inhibitor GS-5885 and ribavirin in patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Among treatment-naïve patients receiving this combination, 100 percent (n=25/25) remained HCV RNA undetectable four weeks after completing therapy (SVR4). These data will be presented on Tuesday, November 13th at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (The Liver Meeting 2012) in Boston. “These results indicate that adding GS-5885 to sofosbuvir-based regimens may enhance SVR rates, potentially offering HCV genotype 1 infected