A Phase 3, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Resmetirom in NASH with Liver Fibrosis

Stephen A Harrison1, Pierre Bedossa1, Cynthia D Guy1

  • 1From the University of Oxford, Oxford (S.A.H.), the Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne (Q.M.A.), and the National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Birmingham, Birmingham (P.N.N.) - all in the United Kingdom; Pinnacle Clinical Research, San Antonio (S.A.H., M.R.), South Texas Research Institute, Edinburg (R.P.), and Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston Research Institute, Houston (M.N.) - all in Texas; Liverpat and University of Paris (P.B.), INSERM, Unité Mixte de Recherche Scientifique (UMRS) 1139, Centre de Recherche sur l'Inflammation (L.C.), and Sorbonne Université, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), INSERM, UMRS 1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers (V.R.), Paris, and Université Paris-Cité, Department of Hepatology, Beaujon Hospital, APHP, Clichy (L.C.) - all in France; Duke University Health System, Durham, NC (C.D.G.); the Metabolic Liver Research Program, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenburg University Mainz, Mainz (J.M.S.), the Department of Internal Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg (J.M.S.), and Klinikum St. Georg Leipzig, Leipzig (I.S.) - all in Germany; MASLD Research Center, the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (R.L.); Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, West Conshohocken, PA (R.T., D.L.); University of Arizona for Medical Sciences (S.E.M.) and Arizona Liver Health (N.A.) - both in Tucson; Covenant Metabolic Specialists, Sarasota (G.W.N.), and Flourish Research, Boca Raton (S.J.B.) - both in Florida; the Transplant Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Transplant Institute, Center for Liver Diseases, University of Chicago Biological Sciences - both in Chicago (M.E.R., M.R.C.); the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.F.A.); the Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church (Z.Y.), and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (A.J.S.) - both in Virginia; the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem (S.F.), and Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Service d'Hépato-gastroentérologie, UCLouvain, Brussels (N.L.) - both in Belgium; the Liver Unit at the IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy (A.M.); the Liver Unit, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Barcelona (J.M.P.); and the Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York (M.B.B.).

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