Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd - GLMD STOCK NEWS

galmed pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of aramchol, a novel, once-daily, oral therapy for treating liver diseases utilizing its proprietary first-in-class family of synthetic fatty-acid/bile-acid conjugates, or fabacs. aramchol is initially being developed for treating non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis, or nash, a chronic disease affecting a large population, for treating patients who also suffer from obesity and insulin resistance. galmed pharmaceuticals galmed’s business has been, in its current legal structure, was incorporated in israel on july 31, 2013 as a privately held company. however, operating since 2000 under a different group of companies established in the same year. galmed was co-founded by professor tuvia gilat and allen baharaff, based on professor gilat’s extensive research in fabac’s and nash.