SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGS), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in liver and viral diseases, today announced that an abstract for its capsid assembly modulator – empty (CAM-E) drug candidate, ALG-000184, has been accepted as a late breaking poster at The Liver Meeting® of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), in Boston, Massachusetts, November 10 – 14, 2023.

The poster (#5028-C), titled “Long-term dosing with the capsid assembly modulator ALG-000184 results in multi-log reductions of DNA, RNA, HBsAg, HBeAg, and HBcrAg in untreated HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B subjects,” will be presented in Poster Hall C on Monday, November 13 from 1-2 pm ET. The presenting author is Dr. Man-Fung (MF) Yuen, Chair and Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Hong Kong.

About Aligos

Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that was founded in 2018 with the mission to become a world leader in the treatment of liver and viral diseases. Aligos’ strategy is to harness the deep expertise and decades of drug development experience its team has in liver and viral diseases to discover and develop potentially best in class therapeutics for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and viruses with high unmet medical need such as coronaviruses and chronic hepatitis B (CHB).

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