Altimmune to Present New Data on the Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Fibrotic Properties of Pemvidutide in a Late-Breaking Presentation at the Liver Meeting 2023.

ENPNewswire-October 26, 2023--Altimmune to Present New Data on the Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Fibrotic Properties of Pemvidutide in a Late-Breaking Presentation at the Liver Meeting 2023

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Release date- 25102023 - GAITHERSBURG - Altimmune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that new data on the anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic properties of pemvidutide from its 24-week Phase 1b randomized, placebo-controlled study in subjects with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) will be presented in a late-breaking poster presentation at The Liver Meeting 2023 of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in Boston, MA (November 10-14, 2023).

Pemvidutide is a novel, investigational, peptide-based GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist in development for the treatment of obesity and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

About Pemvidutide

Pemvidutide is a novel, investigational, peptide-based GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist in development for the treatment of obesity and NASH. Activation of the GLP-1 and glucagon receptors is believed to mimic the complementary effects of diet and exercise on weight loss, with GLP-1 suppressing appetite and glucagon increasing energy expenditure. Glucagon is also recognized as having direct effects on hepatic fat metabolism...

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