Akero el­bows its way in­to a crowd­ed NASH field, with $65M and a strat­e­gy for tack­ling a block­buster mar­ket

Over the last few weeks we’ve been treat­ed to a cou­ple of sto­ries about small biotechs which en­joyed a swift run-up in stock val­ues af­ter post­ing their beau­ty shots of clin­i­cal da­ta for NASH drugs. NASH re­mains the big new dis­ease tar­get that is suck­ing up a lot of R&D at­ten­tion at large and small bio­phar­mas around the world, and in­vestors are look­ing to ride one of the win­ning play­ers to the promised land.

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