Galectin Therapeutics Reports 2017 Financial Results and Provides Business Update

Galectin Therapeutics (NASDAQ:GALT), the leading developer of therapeutics that target galectin proteins, today reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2017. These results are included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is available at www.sec.gov.

As quoted in the press release:

“In 2017 we achieved a major milestone in establishing GR-MD-02 as the first drug to show positive results in a clinical trial in patients with compensated NASH cirrhosis without esophageal varices,” said Peter G. Traber, M.D., president, chief executive officer and chief medical officer of Galectin Therapeutics. “We believe this is the first randomized clinical trial of any drug to demonstrate clinically meaningful positive effects, including reducing portal hypertension, facilitating an improvement in liver cell death (a key component of NASH), and reducing the development of new esophageal varices, in this important group of patients. The drug has also always proven to be safe and well tolerated.

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