Lipocine Inc (LPCN)

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SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Lipocine Inc. (NASDAQ:LPCN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on metabolic and endocrine disorders, today announced that the last patient has been enrolled in its LiFT ("Liver Fat intervention with oral Testosterone") Phase 2 clinical study, a paired-biopsy study investigating LPCN 1144 in confirmed non-cirrhotic non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH") subjects. LPCN 1144 is an oral prodrug of endogenous testosterone. To date LPCN 1144 therapy has shown meaningful reductions of liver fat in our proof of concept liver fat imaging study in hypogonadal males and has demonstrated treatment potential in a pre-clinical NASH and hepatic fibrosis rabbit model. Moreover, no notable tolerability issues have been seen in 700+ hypogonadal subjects with up to 52-week exposure.