Pharmasset

Chimerix appoints Michael Rogers as chief development officer

Monday, March 18, 2013 09:40 AM

Chimerix, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, oral antivirals in areas of high unmet medical need, has appointed Michael D. Rogers, Ph.D., as chief development officer.

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Chimerix appoints Michelle Berrey as CMO

Monday, November 19, 2012 10:45 AM

Chimerix, a Durham, N.C.-based biotechnology company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, has appointed Michelle Berrey, MD, MPH, as chief medical officer.

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Gilead Sciences acquires Pharmasset, looks to duplicate its HIV success in hepatitis C

Monday, November 28, 2011 08:02 AM

Consolidation among drug sponsors continues. 

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Gilead to acquire Pharmasset for $11 billion

Monday, November 21, 2011 03:36 PM

Gilead Sciences and Pharmasset have signed a definitive agreement under which Gilead will acquire Pharmasset for $137 per share in cash. The transaction, which values Pharmasset at approximately $11 billion, was unanimously approved by Pharmasset's board of directors. Gilead plans to finance the transaction with cash on hand, bank debt and senior unsecured notes. The company expects the transaction, when completed, to be dilutive to Gilead's earnings through 2014 and accretive in 2015 and beyond. Further guidance will be provided when the transaction closes, which is expected to be in the first quarter of 2012.

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Pharmasset reports fiscal year financial results

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:49 AM

Princeton, N.J.-based Pharmasset, a clinical stage pharma company that discovers, develops and commercializes drugs to treat viral infections, reported a net loss of $91.2 million, or $1.25 per share, for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011, compared to a net loss of $66.1 million, or $1.07 per share for fiscal 2010. Revenues were $0.9 million for fiscal year 2011, compared to $1.0 million for fiscal 2010. Revenues during each fiscal year primarily consist of amortization of up-front and subsequent collaborative and license payments received from Roche previously recorded as deferred revenue. 

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Pharmasset initiates phase IIb QUANTUM trial

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:57 AM

Pharmasset has begun screening in a phase IIb, international study of PSI-7977 and PSI-938, two nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitors for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV). The QUANTUM trial will evaluate interferon-free regimens of PSI-7977 400mg QD and PSI-938 300mg QD with and without ribavirin over 12 or 24 weeks in patients with HCV who have not been treated previously. The trial will also evaluate the use of PSI-938 monotherapy.

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Pharmasset, Tibotec collaborate in hepatitis C study

Friday, July 8, 2011 12:32 PM

Pharmasset has entered into a clinical collaboration agreement with Tibotec Pharmaceuticals to evaluate in a phase II study the safety and efficacy of PSI-7977 in combination with TMC435, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV).

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Pharmasset presents early-stage data

Thursday, March 17, 2011 01:40 PM

Pharmasset’s experimental hepatitis C therapies may pose a challenge to treatments from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, based on trial results to be released in late March, BMO Capital Markets Corp. analysts said, according to a Bloomberg report.

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