** Shares of Chemomab Therapeutics CMMB.O rise 38% to
$2.40 premarket
** Co reports positive data from mid-stage trial of its
experimental drug CM-101 for treatment of a type of fatty liver
disease called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
** New data was in addition to results initially released in
January and showed that the treatment resulted in a greater
biomarker response in patients at greater risk of disease
progression than in those with lower risk disease or in
placebo-treated patients - CMMB
** Up to last close, stock had slumped ~46% YTD
(Reporting by Aniruddha Ghosh in Bengaluru)
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