John McHutchison throws in the towel on HBV drug, triggering layoffs as Assembly shifts to next-gen approaches

Amber Tong

When Assembly Biosciences disclosed in 2020 that its lead experimental hepatitis B drug vebicorvir, in combination with nucleoside therapy, couldn’t offer the functional cure …

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