Terns Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals touts safe­ty da­ta from an ex-Eli Lil­ly can­di­date in the hunt for NASH treat­ment

While many oth­ers have tried — and failed — to get a NASH can­di­date across the fin­ish line, Terns Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals thinks its FXR ag­o­nist will even­tu­al­ly earn its wings with­out the safe­ty is­sues that have slowed oth­ers down. Now, a mid-stage safe­ty read­out could help add some va­lid­i­ty to those hopes.

No pa­tients in the Phase IIa LIFT study dis­con­tin­ued TERN-101 due to side ef­fects, CMO Erin Quirk said dur­ing a call with in­vestors on Mon­day morn­ing. That in­cludes pru­ri­tus, an un­com­fort­able itch­ing sen­sa­tion that fre­quent­ly leads pa­tients to drop out of oth­er FXR ag­o­nist stud­ies.

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