Akero Therapeutics announced the dosing of the first patient in its Phase 2a clinical study of AKR-001, a novel FGF21 analog, for the treatment of NASH (the BALANCED study).
The first group of subjects have been dosed in a single-dose three-way crossover pharmacokinetic (PK) study with RHB-105 versus the active comparators in the confirmatory Phase III study and in a food-effect study with RHB-105 in healthy volunteers