No­var­tis hands off $80M in cash to part­ner up with a top biotech play­er in the fi­bro­sis sec­tor

Nev­er un­der­es­ti­mate the pow­er of a good show­ing at a sci­en­tif­ic con­fer­ence.

In a pre­sen­ta­tion late last year, the re­searchers at Pli­ant Ther­a­peu­tics launched a se­ries of dis­cus­sions about the pre­clin­i­cal da­ta they were pulling to­geth­er around their work on their small-mol­e­cule in­te­grin in­hibitor aimed at trans­form­ing growth fac­tor be­ta, or TGF-β, a key path­way in­volved in fi­bro­sis.

And they got some se­ri­ous at­ten­tion for the work.

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