Novartis’s NASH Chief: Our Strategy Is Combos With Tropifexor As ‘Backbone’
Executive Summary
Novartis's broad but early-stage NASH pipeline will use FXR agonist tropifexor as its keystone for developing combination therapies with outside partners.
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