SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FibroGen, Inc. (NASDAQ:FGEN), a science-based biopharmaceutical company, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2017 and announced positive topline results of the company’s Phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study and two combination sub-studies of pamrevlumab in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Pamrevlumab is a proprietary anti-connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) antibody being evaluated in fibrotic disease and cancer.