89Bio Ltd. (89bio), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the first patients have been screened in its proof of concept Phase 1b/2a clinical trial evaluating its investigational product candidate, BIO89-100, a glycoPEGylated analog of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) or patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and high risk of NASH.
August 8, 2019
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