Description
Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biotech company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat progressive non-viral liver diseases. Obeticholic acid, or OCA, is an agonist of the farnesoid X receptor. OCA was approved as Ocaliva to treat primary biliary cirrhosis in 2016 and is being developed for a variety of chronic liver diseases, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
