INGELHEIM, Germany, December 9th, 2011 – Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the final patient has been randomised to treatment in the large-scale Phase III clinical trial programme for BI 201335, its investigational, oral protease inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV).
The extensive study programme is underway at more than 350 sites in 15 countries and together encompasses nearly 2,000 treatment-experienced as well as treatment-naïve patients. Key regions in the programme include the European Union, Japan, U.S., Canada, Taiwan, Korea and Russia.