SHANGHAI – A venture in China is moving ahead with new trials for an all-oral therapy for HCV, an infection estimated to affect more than 40 million people in the country.
Ascletis’s IFN-Free HCV Combo Set For Trials
China’s first home developed, interferon-free hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment, a combination of two direct acting antiviral agents, is expected to enter new clinical trials in both China and Taiwan within a year.
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