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Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. said on Friday its treatment for patients with advanced liver scarring due to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) failed to meet the main goal of a late-stage study, sending its shares down as much as 21%.

Shares of Akero Therapeutics were surging Thursday after the company announced that pharma giant Pfizer made a $25 million equity investment that will help support the development of its experimental pre-cirrhotic and cirrhotic nonalcoholic steatohepatitis therapeutic (NASH) drug.