The Pharma Letter Podcast — Episode 28 — Breakthroughs in MASH, with 89bio CEO

This week we’re focusing on an area of clinical research that has been of great interest for a number of years, that is NASH, also known as MASH. 

It’s a high area of unmet medical need, with over 20 million diagnosed cases across Europe and the USA, and while there are more than 80 therapies currently in the pipeline, only around 5% of these are in Phase III development.

One company working in this area is San Francisco-based 89bio (Nasdaq: ETNB), which has a candidate now in Phase III, pegozafermin, and in this episode we are joined by the company’s chief executive, Rohan Palekar.

We are also joined by Dr Arun Sanyal, who is Professor of Medicine at VCU Health and founder of the Liver Trust.