As doctors prepare to manage an influx of new hepatitis C patients and treatment options, a collaboration among academia, industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to deliver real-world data that can help doctors and patients optimize their treatment experience.
Co-led by Dr. David R. Nelson at the University of Florida and Dr. Michael W. Fried at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Hepatitis C Therapeutic Registry and Research Network joined forces with the FDA to share national data on how newly approved hepatitis C therapeutics are used and managed in routine practice.
HCV-TARGET is rooted in the infrastructure and collaborative network of the national Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) consortium. It is sponsored in part by multiple pharmaceutical companies.
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FDA, academia and industry team up to end hepatitis C
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- April 26, 2013: HCV-TARGET presents its first interim analysis at the 48th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver:
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