INTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

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Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey and currently employs 341 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2012-10-11. Its product candidates include Ocaliva (obeticholic (OCA)) for liver fibrosis due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), OCA and Bezafibrate, and Other Product Candidates. The Company’s marketed product, Ocaliva, is a farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonist for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) in combination with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in adults with an inadequate response to UDCA or as monotherapy in adults unable to tolerate UDCA. The firm is evaluating tolerability of OCA in combination with bezafibrate in patients with PBC in a Phase II study outside of the United States. Its other compounds are in early stages of research and development pipeline including INT-787 compound, an FXR agonist is in a Phase IIa clinical trial.