Merck to Seek Approval of New Hepatitis C Drug by Midyear

If all goes as planned, Merck will soon take a major step forward in the hot pursuit among pharmaceutical companies to produce a newer, better, faster-working drug to treat the millions of people who have chronic hepatitis C infection.

By midyear the company expects to submit a New Drug Application to the Food and Drug Administration for approval of grazoprevir/elbasvir, a combination regimen investigational drug designed to be taken once daily as treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Grazoprevir is an NS3/4A second-generation protease inhibitor and elbasvir is an NS5A inhibitor.

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