drugset / Trial / NCT00120835

Valopicitabine When Administered Alone and in Combination With Interferon to Treatment-Naive Patients With Hepatitis C

NCT00120835

Phase 1/2 Completed Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

This study is being conducted in treatment-naive patients (no previous hepatitis C treatment) to evaluate the safety of valopicitabine (NM283) alone and together with pegylated interferon, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of hepatitis C infection. This study is also evaluating the ability of valopicitabine to decrease the amount of hepatitis C virus in the body. The results for patients taking valopicitabine alone will be compared with the results for patients taking valopicitabine together with pegylated interferon.

Timeline

Start
2004-07
Primary completion
Completion

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Peginterferon alfa-2a Protein / enzyme biologic
Subject valopicitabine Unknown