Industry | Pharmaceuticals |
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Founded | 1998 |
Defunct | 2012 |
Fate | Acquired by Gilead Sciences in 2012 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Raymond Schinazi Dennis Liotta |
Pharmasset Inc. was a pharmaceutical company based in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States. The company develops antiviral drugs for HIV (including racivir), hepatitis B (including clevudine, marketed as Levovir), and hepatitis C.[1] In November 2011, Pharmasset was acquired by Gilead for $11.2 billion.[2]