Asunaprevir NDA Withdrawal Likely To Mean Daclatasvir Delay
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Bristol pulls NDA for its second-generation protease inhibitor, which likely will alter the data needed for approval of its simultaneously filed NS5A inhibitor. Recent approval of daclatasvir in Europe may offer a glimpse at Bristol’s revised U.S. strategy in HCV.
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