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Drug Development

Boehringer licenses Yuhan’s NASH drug

by Lisa M. Jarvis
July 5, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 27

 

Boehringer Ingelheim will pay South Korea’s Yuhan $40 million to jointly develop a treatment for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and related liver diseases. Companies are developing numerous therapies to treat NASH, a serious liver disorder marked by fat accumulation, inflammation, and scarring. While most treatments in development address one of those three traits, Yuhan’s molecule, a dual agonist of GLP-1 and FGF21, aims to address both inflammation and scarring.

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