Telaprevir
Alternative Names: Incivek; Incivo; LY-570310; MP-424; Telavic; VX-950Latest Information Update: 12 Dec 2025
At a glance
- Originator Eli Lilly and Company; Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Developer Janssen R&D Ireland; Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation; Tanabe Pharma Corporation; Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Class Antivirals; Cyclohexanes; Cyclopentanes; Cyclopropanes; Peptidomimetics; Pyrazines; Pyrrolidines; Small molecules
- Mechanism of Action Hepatitis C virus NS3 protein inhibitors; Hepatitis C virus NS4 protein inhibitors
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Orphan Drug Status
No
Orphan designation is assigned by a regulatory body to encourage companies to develop drugs for rare diseases.
- New Molecular Entity Yes
Highest Development Phases
- Marketed Hepatitis C
Most Recent Events
- 01 Dec 2025 Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation is now called Tanabe Pharma Corporation
- 01 Aug 2017 Discontinued - Phase-I/II for Hepatitis C (Combination therapy, In adolescents, In children) in USA, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and United Kingdom (PO), because not listed on Vertex and Janssen Pharmaceutica pipeline, August 2017
- 07 Jun 2016 Vertex terminates a phase I/II trial in Hepatitis C (Combination therapy, In adolescents, In children) in USA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain (NCT01701063)