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Pharmasset Selects Investigational HCV Polymerase Inhibitor PSI-879 for Preclinical Development

Pharmasset, Inc. recently announced that it has chosen its experimental hepatitis C virus (HCV) polymerase inhibitor PSI-352879 (or PSI-879 for short) -- a purine nucleotide analog -- as a candidate for further preclinical development. PSI-879, as well as the company's other investigational nucleoside/nucleotide analogs, may potentially be suitable for use in combination regimens with other directly-targeted oral anti-HCV drugs now in the pipeline.

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