French drugmaker Genfit SA on Thursday said it would begin a midstage trial this year of its experimental drug elafibranor to treat primary biliary cholangitis, a chronic disease in which bile ducts in the liver are gradually destroyed.
The company is already enrolling a 2,000-patient Phase III trial of elafibranor for the fast-growing fatty liver disease nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, which is driven by obesity, diabetes and over-indulgent lifestyles and can lead to cirrhosis, liver failure and cancer.
Source: Reuters
Filed Under: Drug Discovery
