akero therapeutics is developing best-in-class medicines that restore metabolic balance to treat non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) and other serious metabolic diseases. akero's lead clinical program, akr-001, is a long-acting fc fusion modified fgf21 protein and potential best-in-class treatment for nash. akr-001 builds upon two decades of work on fgf21 biology. it is designed to affect both the liver and adipose tissue, reducing liver fat and suppressing inflammation and fibrosis.