Monday, March 7, 2011

Hepatitis C Drug IDX184 will be presented at The International Liver Congress/ 46th European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)

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The International Liver Congress™ 2011 by EASL (46th annual meeting)

Idenix Announces Data Presentations at the 46th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDIX), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of human viral diseases, today announced that two abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL, March 30- April 3, 2011 in Berlin, Germany).

Full abstracts can now be viewed at the EASL website at http://www.easl.eu/ .
The accepted abstracts are as follows:
Standring, et al, "Idenix NS5A HCV Replication Inhibitors with Low Picomolar, Pan-Genotypic in vitro Antiviral Activity" will be presented in a poster session beginning on Friday, April 1.
Standring, et al, "No Resistance to IDX184 Was Detected in 3-day and 14-day Clinical Studies of IDX184 in Genotype 1-Infected HCV Subjects" will be presented in a poster session on Saturday, April 2.
About Idenix
Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of human viral diseases. Idenix's current focus is on the treatment of infections caused by hepatitis C virus.

For further information about Idenix, please refer to http://www.idenix.com/.

Forward-looking Statements
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Idenix Pharmaceuticals Contact:
Kelly Barry (617) 995-9033 (media)
Eric Hoffman (617) 224-4485 (investors)
SOURCE Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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