Galectin Offers Subgroup Approach For Struggling NASH Candidate

Having failed to meet its primary endpoint in consecutive Phase II studies, Galectin hopes to move GR-MD-02 forward in NASH in patients with cirrhosis who have not developed esophageal varices.

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Galectin Therapeutics Inc. thinks subgroup analysis of its failed Phase IIb study in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) highlights a way forward for its complex carbohydrate drug GR-MD-02, but investors don't seem to agree.

The Norcross, Ga., biotech reported Dec. 5 that GR-MD-02, targeting the galectin-3 protein which plays a role in fatty liver and fibrotic pathogenesis, failed to meet the primary endpoint of...

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