Expert Interview
A Second Look: Digging into the recent data from the MAESTRO-NASH phase 3 trial of Madrigal Pharmaceuticals' resmetirom in NASH
Ticker(s): MDGLInstitution: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Director of Hepatology and Liver Center & Vice Chief of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
- Treats 75 patients with PSC and 400 patients with NASH.
- Research interest in liver disease pathogenesis in persons with HIV, viral hepatitis, and defining biomarkers and gene signatures for persons at high risk for liver disease progression and liver cancer.
Roughly how many patients do you see monthly with NASH?
Added By: dami_adminWhat are your thoughts on the data from the MAESTRO-NASH phase 3 trial of resmetirom?
Added By: dami_adminA doctor had some criticism to the data, including the level of efficacy not being super high and some side effect issues. How excited are you for the data, and how well do you think this did, relative to your expectations?
Added By: slingshot_insightsDo you think that there is a need for combination therapy in this space, or is the nature of this disease not dramatic enough to warrant additional therapy?
The doctor had a couple of criticisms of this study, including that 11 patients were lost to Covid and 40 or 50 were missing from another number in the treatment. Do you think this will affect the data?
On a scale from 1 to 10, where would you say you are on this matter of data that just came out?
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