golfyeti - The answer is yes Merck has heard of us. When the results of ASSERT (don't know if I got that correct) came out thier president did his best to trash us because of the elevated ALTs that were transient. His comment at the time was something like "With elevated ALTs like that I wouldn't take that drug". It was very out of context and hurt us in the press. Our sweat justice in the end was that thier CEPT that he was trying to put into better light finally fizzled out after billions were spent on its development.

Zenith is currently in a combo trial with Merck and the UCSF as well.

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