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  EASL
43rd Annual Meeting of the European Association For The Study Of The Liver
Milan, Italy
April 23-27, 2008
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NEW HCV DRUGS at EASL Apr 23-27, 2008 Milan
 
 
  Several new HCV drugs including HCV protease inibitors, polymerase inhibitors, and nitazoxanide will be highlights at this EASL meeting. These drugs are the most advanced in development and are being studied in HCV+ patients. So, development for these drugs are on a fast track. Although telaprevir is the furthest along in development with phase III starting, and boceprevir is expected to start phase III, my observation is that several other drugs are close behind so a regimen with 2 or more oral drugs is possible within a few years. Jules Levin
 
Sunday, Symposium 9: CLINICAL: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN HCV THERAPY
 
Chairperson: Maria Buti-Ferret, Spain
 
10:30 TARGETS FOR HCV THERAPY
J-M. Pawlotsky
France
 
10:50 CLINICAL RESULTS OF PROTEASE AND POLYMERASE INHIBITORS
S. Zeuzem
Germany
 
11:10 ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE TYPES OF DRUG RESISTANCE AND MANAGEMENT
M. Sulkowski
USA
 
11:30 PERSPECTIVES IN INTERFERON AND IMMUNE THERAPIES
H. Wedemeyer
Germany
 
11:40 DISCUSSION
 
NEW DRUGS
(these are the titles of the presentations at EASL; full reports will follow from NATAP after the data is presented).
 
EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF INCREASING DOSES OF THE CYCLOPHILIN INHIBITOR DEBIO 025 IN COMBINATION WITH PEGYLATED INTERFERON ALPHA-2A IN TREATMENT NÁVE CHRONIC HCV PATIENTS
 
BOCEPREVIR (B) COMBINATION THERAPY IN NULL RESPONDERS (NR): RESPONSE DEPENDENT ON INTERFERON RESPONSIVENESS
 
HIGH END-OF-TREATMENT RESPONSE (84%) AFTER 4 WEEKS OF R1626, PEGINTERFERON ALFA-2A (40KD) AND RIBAVIRIN FOLLOWED BY A FURTHER 44 WEEKS OF PEGINTERFERON ALFA-2A AND RIBAVIRIN
 
TREATMENT OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C WITH TELAPREVIR (TVR) IN COMBINATION WITH PEGINTERFERON-ALFA-2A WITH OR WITHOUT RIBAVIRIN: FURTHER INTERIM ANALYSIS RESULTS OF THE PROVE2 STUDY
 
SAFETY OF THE HCV PROTEASE INHIBITOR TMC435350 IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS AND SAFETY AND ACTIVITY IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C INFECTED INDIVIDUALS: A PHASE I STUDY
 
POTENT ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY OF THE HCV NUCLEOSIDE POLYMERASE INHIBITOR R7128 WITH PEG-IFN AND RIBAVIRIN: INTERIM RESULTS OF R7128 500MG BID FOR 28 DAYS
 
POTENT ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY OF SECOND GENERATION NUCLEOSIDE INHIBITORS, IDX102 AND IDX184, IN HCV-INFECTED CHIMPANZEES
 
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF NITAZOXANIDE-PEGINTERFERON-RIBAVIRIN, NITAZOXANIDE-PEGINTERFERON AND PEGINTERFERON-RIBAVIRIN IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS C GENOTYPE 4
 
PROVE1: RESULTS FROM A PHASE 2 STUDY OF TELAPREVIR WITH PEGINTERFERON ALFA-2A AND RIBAVIRIN IN TREATMENT-NÁVE SUBJECTS WITH HEPATITIS C
 
LOW LEVEL OF RESISTANCE, LOW VIRAL FITNESS AND ABSENCE OF RESISTANCE MUTATIONS IN BASELINE QUASISPECIES MAY CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH BARRIER TO R1626 RESISTANCE IN VIVO
 
STUDIES OF THE POTENTIAL FOR RESISTANCE TO NITAZOXANIDE OR TIZOXANIDE
 
IN VITRO ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY AND PHARMACOLOGY OF IDX184, A NOVEL AND POTENT INHIBITOR OF HCV REPLICATION
 
A NEW CLASS OF POTENT INHIBITORS OF HCV RNA-DEPENDANT RNA POLYMERASE
 
ONCE-DAILY REGIMENS OF THE HCV NS3/4A-PROTEASE INHIBITOR TMC435350 ARE PREDICTED TO PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC EXPOSURE IN PLASMA AND LIVER
 
PRECLINICAL PHARMACOKINETIC AND ADME CHARACTERIZATION OF VCH-916, A NOVEL NON-NUCLEOSIDE HCV NS5B POLYMERASE INHIBITOR
 
RESULTS OF A SAFETY, TOLERABILITY AND PHARMACOKINETIC PHASE I STUDY OF VCH-916, A NOVEL POLYMERASE INHIBITOR FOR HCV, FOLLOWING SINGLE ASCENDING DOSES IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS