This month, Surfing NASH embarks on a series of episodes dedicated to takeaways emerging from June’s two major conferences: the 2023 EASL Congress in Vienna and the American Diabetes Association’s 83rd Scientific Sessions meeting in San Diego.
In doing so, the Big Band of Surfers (Stephen Harrison, Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green) are joined by Mazen Noureddin for a fascinating conversation which covers compelling data and ideas emerging from the drug development space.
Mazen starts this conversation by stressing the importance of omics, particularly metabolomics and proteomics, in creating a single blood-based measure that can offer standardization around evaluation or, otherwise, a small set of standard tests. He goes on to describe breakthrough obesity presentations at the ADA meeting and returns to the question that he raised in Episode 31: do we need NASH drugs given how powerful the upcoming weight-loss pharmacotherapies will be? He simply says, yes we do, and describes why. Stephen returns to the topic of omics, stating his preference for additional omics works, albeit with some skepticism about proteomics. That said, he questions whether omics will get a far enough and expresses hope that epigenetics might get even further. The rest of this conversation entails Mazen, Stephen and Jörn discussing biomarkers and omics issues. Stephen wraps up the session by noting that we will have plenty to talk about in this arena for years to come. Finally, he mentions AI as another key area for future growth.
Each conversation covers a lot of ground on drug development, analysis of trial results, and the upcoming increases in importance of omics and artificial intelligence. If you have questions or comments around the EASL Congress or ADA meetings, or the themes and data discussed in this episode, we kindly ask that you submit reviews wherever you download the discourse. Alternatively, you can write to us directly at questions@SurfingNASH.com.
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