Year Of NASH Upheaval Means Incremental Data At AASLD
Firms Are Retrenching, But There Are Signs Of Progress
Executive Summary
With still no approved therapy for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, Intercept, Madrigal, Inventiva and others used the liver meeting to build the cases for their NASH candidates.
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