Aligos Therapeutics Inc (ALGS)

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ALGS discontinues another HBV candidate:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aligos-discontinues-development-antisense-oligonucleotide-120000830.html

Aligos Therapeutics…today announced that it has discontinued development of its drug candidate, ALG-020572, which was being studied in subjects with chronic hepatitis B (CHB).

Dosing in the first CHB cohort of Study ALG-020572-401 (NCT05001022) was stopped after one subject experienced a serious adverse event (SAE) with significant increase in alanine aminotransferase (ALT) following multiple dosing of 210 mg ALG-020572 that resulted in a brief hospitalization. This is one of four CHB subjects in this first cohort who experienced potentially drug-related ALT flares…