Discontinuing a compound is always a letdown, but it’s much better to find a safety problem in phase-1 than later on.
ENTA will need to find a second oral compound to complement EDP-514 (the lead HBV compound), which could either be another RNA destabilizer or a compound with a different MoA. The company’s drug-discovery engine is up to the task, IMO.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”