News|Articles|December 27, 2024

Headway in Hepatology: Resmetirom’s Historic FDA Approval, What’s Next in MASH

Resmetirom made history when it became the first and only FDA-approved MASH drug in 2024, but the pipeline continues to show promise heading into 2025.

For many years, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) was a clinical enigma – prevalent, progressive, and without a targeted treatment. That narrative changed in 2024, a year that will undoubtedly be remembered as a turning point in hepatology when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to resmetirom (Rezdiffra).1