HEPA

Hepion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of drug therapy for treatment of chronic liver diseases. The Company is developing a treatment for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and other chronic liver diseases. Its cyclophilin inhibitor, rencofilstat, is being developed to offer benefits to address multiple complex pathologies related to the progression of liver disease. It is developing rencofilstat as its lead molecule. Rencofilstat is a compound that binds and inhibits the function of a specific class of isomerase enzymes called cyclophilins that regulate protein folding, in addition to other activities. It has developed and maintains an artificial intelligence deep machine learning (AI/ML) platform designed to understand disease processes and identify patients that are rencofilstat responders. In addition, its AI/ML can be used to further NASH and HCC clinical development programs.