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89bio: standing out in the NASH crowd
89bio thinks its FGF21 analog could be superior to other compounds that aim to treat the underlying metabolic causes of NASH
May 17, 2019 9:19 PM UTC
89bio thinks it can differentiate itself from companies targeting NASH as an inflammatory and fibrotic disease by attacking it as a metabolic disorder and addressing its root cause with an FGF analog that could be superior to others in development.
The company launched last year with a $60 million series A round and two discarded compounds from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to address the absence of marketed drugs to treat non-alcoholic steatohepatitis...
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