Data from 89bio’s ENLIVEN Phase 2b Trial of Pegozafermin in Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) Published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Simultaneously Presented in a Late-breaker Session at the EASL International Liver Congress
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 89bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETNB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of liver and cardio-metabolic diseases, today announced that data from the Phase 2b ENLIVEN trial evaluating treatment with pegozafermin in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) were published online in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The data were simultaneously presented in a late-breaking oral session today at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Congress 2023 in Vienna, Austria and were also selected for inclusion in the Best of EASL Congress summary.
- The published manuscript titled “A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the FGF21 Analog Pegozafermin in NASH” is available online.
- A copy of the EASL oral presentation will be accessible under “Scientific Publications” in the pipeline section of 89bio’s website .
- Treatment with pegozafermin also led to clinically meaningful changes compared to baseline in liver fat and other key non-invasive tests (NITs) of liver inflammation and fibrosis.
- Five out of eleven of these patients treated with pegozafermin had fibrosis improvement ≥1 stage without worsening of NASH.