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Pipeline advancing

Achillion recently announced that its partner, Janssen, has fully enrolled its 365-patient Phase IIb trial testing the triple combination of ALS-022335, simeprevir and odalasvir (together known as JNJ-4178) to treat hepatitis C patients, with results expected in H217. Importantly, the trial will be testing six- and eight-week treatment durations (the current standard treatment duration is 8-12 weeks). Achillion also recently initiated patient dosing in a Phase II trial of ACH-4471 in treatment naïve PNH patients.
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Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Achillion Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in the discovery and development of small molecule drug therapies for immune system disorders. The company is advancing orally administered small molecules from its platform that target complement factor D, an essential protein of the alternative pathway. The alternative pathway plays a role in a number of disease conditions, including therapeutic areas of nephrology, hematology, ophthalmology and neurology. Initially Co. is targeting C3 glomerulopathy, and immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, two related rare diseases affecting the kidney, and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, a blood disorder.

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Maxim Jacobs

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