Gen­fit's NASH drug fails a close­ly-watched PhI­II show­down, adding one more set­back to a plagued field

Gen­fit’s bid to make R&D his­to­ry with a sto­ry­book turn­around came to a crash­ing halt on Mon­day as the French biotech ac­knowl­edged that its Phase III study of elafi­bra­nor failed to dis­tin­guish it­self from place­bo in treat­ing NASH.

The biotech had tried to prove that the drug would re­solve NASH with­out fi­bro­sis in a pop­u­la­tion of more than 1,000 pa­tients. But the da­ta came up with a 19.2% re­sponse rate for the drug arm com­pared to a 14.7% rate for the place­bo.

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