Terns Pharmaceuticals touts mid-stage success for NASH drug, stock falls

09 Aug 2023
Clinical ResultPhase 2
Terns Pharmaceuticals said a high dose of its experimental oral NASH treatment helped reduce liver fat in a Phase IIa trial.
The Foster City, CA-based biopharma said Tuesday in a release that TERN-501, a once-a-day THR-β agonistTHR-β agonist, met the primary endpoint and all secondary endpoints in the DUET trial.
The study tested three dose levels of TERN-501 — 1 mg, 3 mg and 6 mg — as a monotherapy, as well as in combination with TERN-101, an FXR agonistFXR agonist candidate. It assessed liver fat using a measuring system called magnetic resonance imaging, proton density fat fraction, or MRI-PDFF.
Terns Pharmaceuticals touts mid-stage success for NASH drug, stock falls
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Source: EndPoints
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