SFA Therapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application to investigate SFA-001N in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with or without fibrosis.
Obesity and chronic inflammation in the liver trigger the most severe form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), steatohepatitis. Scientists at the University of Texas (UT) have shown how damaged hepatocytes accumulated in the liver after a vicious cycle of cytokine expression induced shedding of a critical liver receptor.
“Far superior to what almost anyone expected,” was how H.C. Wainwright analyst Ed Arce described the top-line readout for Madrigal Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s phase III study of resmetirom, which hit both of its dual endpoints in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and is expected to form the basis of an accelerated approval application to the U.S. FDA in the first half of 2023.
Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) has been previously identified as an important drug target for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and other related diseases, with GW-4064 being the first nonsteroidal FXR agonist used to explore the biological functions of FXR. Scientists at KBP Biosciences Co. Ltd. and Shandong University designed a novel series of FXR agonists as potential candidates for the treatment of NASH.
Olix Pharmaceuticals Inc. has obtained promising data with OLX-702-A, an investigational GalNAc-asiRNA therapeutic for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), in a nonhuman primate NASH model. Administration of OLX-702-A resulted in a significant reduction in liver fat content, measured by magnetic resonance imaging proton density fat fraction (MRI-PDFF).
Inipharm Inc. has divulged thiazoles/isothiazoles acting as 17-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 13 (HSD17B13) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, cirrhosis, alcoholic liver disease, drug-induced liver injury and portal hypertension.
Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc. has patented thyroid hormone receptor β (THRβ) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
