FDA Advisory Committee meeting to consider boceprevir and telaprevir, April 27 and April 28, 2011The Food and Drug Administration will convene its Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee on April 27 and 28, 2011 to provide advice and recommendations to the Agency on two drugs intended to treat hepatitis C.
On April 27, 2011, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Committee will discuss a new drug application (NDA) 202–258, boceprevir (a hepatitis C virus protease inhibitor), manufactured by Merck(默克公司) & Co., Inc., with
a proposed indication for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 infection, in combination with
peginterferon alfa and ribavirin (two medicines approved to treat chronic hepatitis C infection) in adult patients with compensated liver disease who are previously untreated or who have failed previous therapy.
On April 28, 2011, the committee will discuss a new drug application (NDA) 201–917, telaprevir (a hepatitis C virus protease inhibitor), manufactured by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., with a proposed
indication for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 infection, in combination with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin (two medicines approved to treat chronic hepatitis C infection) in adult patients with compensated liver disease who are previously untreated or who have failed previous therapy.
Compensated liver disease is a stage in which the liver is damaged but maintains ability to function.
The meeting will be held on both days from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the FDA White Oak Campus, located at
10903 New Hampshire Ave., Building 31 Conference Center, the Great Room (rm. 1503), Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002.
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FDA intends to make background material about these meetings available to the public no later than 2 business days before the meeting at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm2.
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If FDA is unable to post the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the background material will be made publicly available at the location of the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be posted on FDA’s Web site after the meeting. Public Participation Information
This FDA advisory committee meeting is free and open to the public without prior registration.
Interested persons may present data, information, or views, orally at the meeting, or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. 作者: interdetect 时间: 2011-4-2 09:25
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company with activities spanning the length of the pharmaceutical product pipeline, from target identification through to clinical trials and marketing. Most of its activity has been in collaboration with much larger pharmaceutical firms, though some of its recent work has been done independently. Vertex was founded in 1989 by Joshua Boger, credited as being one of the main reasons for the company's early success due to his strong fund-raising and company cash flow management. Vertex was one of the first biotech firms to use an explicit strategy of rational drug design rather than combinatorial chemistry. Vertex went about understanding a disease and then tried to develop a process to cure it. In 2004, its product pipeline focused on viral infections, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, and cancer. Its capital investments include a headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and two research facilities, in San Diego, California, and Oxford, England. The company's beginnings were profiled by Barry Werth in the 1994 book "The Billion-Dollar Molecule".
In November 2010, Vertex Pharmaceuticals completed its first NDA under its own name for the drug Telaprevir, a novel oral treatment of Hepatitis C. Development and commercialization of Telaprevir is shared with Johnson and Johnson for European distribution and Mitsubishi for the far east. Telaprevir, a protease inhibitor, is the second in this class to reach NDA status, just behind Merck's boceprevir.
作者: interdetect 时间: 2011-4-2 10:47
StephenW 发表于 2011-4-2 10:25
Vertex 不是很大,我想. Hep C 很多新的药物, 功效 > 70%, 即使是最难治的gentotype 1.
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