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Expert Interview

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Exploring the potential for Viking Therapeutics' VK2809, a liver-selective thyroid hormone receptor beta agonist, in patients with Biopsy-Confirmed Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

Ticker(s): VKTX

Who's the expert?

Institution: Imperial College London

  • Consultant Hepatologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
  • Leads the NAFLD service in the Trust, overseeing a clinic that cares for more than 600 patients.
  • Research interests are focused in translational aspects of NAFLD care, including prediction of cardiovascular risk, quantitation of liver biopsies from NAFLD patients using machine learning, and management of NAFLD cirrhosis. 

Interview Goal
This call will focus on the recently announced positive 52 week data from the Phase 2b VOYAGE Study of VK2809 by Viking Therapeutics showing statistically significant reductions in liver fat content from baseline to Week 12 as compared with placebo.

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