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Hepatitis C Virus

Preclinical Data Presented On New Hepatitis C Protease Inhibitor

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 24th, 2007

Tibotec and Medivir scientists will jointly present the first preclinical data on TMC435350 at the 14th International Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus and Related Viruses in Glasgow, Scotland later this week.

The poster by Simmen et al. entitled "Preclinical Characterization of TMC435350, a novel macrocyclic inhibitor of the HCV NS3/4A serine protease" demonstrates the ability of the compound to reduce the amount of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication in laboratory replicon experiments via protease inhibition. Combination of TMC435350 with interferon is also reported to enhance RNA reduction (>4 logs reduction in the replicon model), and to suppress the appearance of...

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