Gilead Acquires Drug Program For Fatty Liver Disease

By | January 6, 2015

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Big-cap biotech Gilead Sciences (GILD) agreed Tuesday to acquire a program from small German biotech Phenex Pharmaceuticals aimed at treating liver disease. Gilead agreed to an unspecified upfront payment and milestone payments totaling up to $470 million for Phenex’s Farnesoid X Receptor program. The company press release emphasized that one of the targets of this program is non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a common but largely untreated Scalper1 News

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