Liver Disease-Focused Akero Therapeutics Stock Soars Over 100% On Monday - Here's Why

On Monday, Akero Therapeutics, Inc. AKRO released preliminary topline week 96 results from SYMMETRY Phase 2b study evaluating the efficacy and safety of its lead product candidate efruxifermin (EFX) in patients with biopsy-confirmed compensated cirrhosis (F4), Child-Pugh Class A, due to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).Among patients with baseline and week 96 biopsies (n=134), 39% of patients treated with 50mg EFX (n=46) experienced reversal of cirrhosis with no worsening of MASH, rep ...