Madrigal Pharmaceuticals Promotes Rebecca Taub, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Development, to Newly Created Position of President of Research & Development
-- Dr. Taub to present at the 5th Paris NASH Meeting to be held on
“Through Becky’s outstanding stewardship, resmetirom has advanced into Phase 3 clinical development with the potential to become an important new medicine for people with NASH,” Dr. Craves continued. “Additionally, based on its cardiovascular risk reducing profile, resmetirom has the potential to not only demonstrate a highly favorable benefit in patients with advanced NASH but, ultimately, in the broader population of earlier stage NASH/NAFLD patients being treated for LDL-cholesterol and atherogenic lipid lowering. It has been a privilege for me to have worked with Becky this past decade. We are all very grateful for her extraordinary contributions.”
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Presentation at the 5th Paris NASH Meeting
About NASH and NAFLD
Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is a common liver disease in
Patients with NASH, and its more prevalent precursor, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), are at heightened cardiovascular risk. In fact, patients suffering from these conditions die more frequently from cardiovascular events than from their liver disease. Multiple factors may contribute to this risk, including elevated levels of LDL-C and excess liver fat. Patients with NASH and NAFLD, however, may not undergo a biopsy to confirm a NASH diagnosis until they reach the more advanced stages of fibrosis (F2 – F4). A significant segment of this large group of patients may also suffer from diabetes and metabolic syndrome, and have lipid levels that are above target despite treatment with established therapies. These patients may benefit from therapy to lower their lipid levels, including excess liver fat.
About Resmetirom (MGL-3196)
Among its many functions in the human body, thyroid hormone, through activation of its beta receptor, plays a central role in controlling lipid metabolism, impacting a range of health parameters from levels of serum cholesterol and triglycerides to the pathological buildup of fat in the liver. Attempts to exploit this pathway for therapeutic purposes in cardio-metabolic and liver diseases have been hampered by the lack of selectivity of older compounds for the thyroid hormone receptor (THR)-β, chemically-related toxicities and undesirable distribution in the body.
Madrigal recognized that greater selectivity for thyroid hormone receptor (THR)-β and liver targeting might overcome these challenges and deliver the full therapeutic potential of THR-β agonism. Madrigal believes that resmetirom is the first orally administered, small-molecule, liver- directed, truly β-selective THR agonist.
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