Thursday, November 8, 2018

Liver Meeting® 2018 - Conatus Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentations and Posters

Liver Meeting® - Conatus Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentations and Posters

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CNAT) announced today the schedule of upcoming oral presentations and posters addressing clinical and preclinical results with the company’s pan-caspase inhibitor emricasan, or addressing preclinical results with the company’s pan-caspase inhibitor IDN-7314, at The Liver Meeting®, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in San Francisco November 9-13, 2018.

Poster #1226, “Multicenter, double-blind, randomized trial of emricasan in subjects post liver transplantation (LT) with recurrent hepatitis C virus (HCV) and liver fibrosis or cirrhosis despite achieving sustained virologic response (SVR),” will be displayed by Catherine Frenette, M.D., (Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA) in the Liver Transplantation: Viral Hepatitis section on Saturday, November 10, from 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. PT, in the Moscone Center Poster Hall – Hall C.

Presentation #251A, highlighting selected content from poster #1226, will be delivered by K. Rajinder Reddy, M.D., (University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA) in the Parallel 37: Liver Transplantation: Alcohol and Hepatitis C session on Monday, November 12, at 3:15 p.m. PT, in the Moscone Center Room 153/155.

Presentation #25, “Intestinal dysbiosis augments liver disease progression via NLRP3 in a murine model of primary sclerosing cholangitis,” will be delivered by Kai M. Schneider (Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany) in the Presidential Plenary Session on Translational Science and Genomics on Tuesday, November 13, 9:00 a.m. PT., in the Moscone Center General Session – Hall D.

Poster #1344, “Molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of emricasan in portal hypertension and chronic liver disease: the hepato-sinusoidal cross-talk matters,” will be displayed by Jordi Gracia-Sancho, Ph.D., (Idibaps Biomedical Research Institute, Ciberehd, Barcelona, Spain; Hepatology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland; and Barcelona Liver Services) in the Portal Hypertension and Other Complications of Cirrhosis: Experimental section on Saturday, November 10, from 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. PT, in the Moscone Center Poster Hall – Hall C.

“With three ongoing ENCORE Phase 2b clinical trials evaluating emricasan in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), all with top-line results expected over the next nine months, we are encouraged by the preclinical and clinical data being featured at the AASLD meeting demonstrating the activity and effects of pan-caspase inhibitors,” said Conatus co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer Steven J. Mento, Ph.D. “We thank our principal investigators and our scientific collaborators for their continued efforts to better understand and apply the multiple mechanistic effects of caspase inhibitors on liver structure and function, driving their disease-modifying potential. We are pleased with the opportunity to share their latest findings at the AASLD meeting, and we look forward to sharing results from the ENCORE trials.”
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