The (virtual) doors closing on the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is the sign for the biopharma industry that the new year has truly started, but before we get too far into 2021, Scrip has taken a look at five of the biggest non-COVID-19 story themes of 2020 in no particular order.

In its third venture funding round, Terns adds backing from Deerfield in addition to Lilly’s investment. It licensed three non-alcoholic steatohepatitis candidates from the big pharma in 2018.

With still no approved therapy for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, Intercept, Madrigal, Inventiva and others used the liver meeting to build the cases for their NASH candidates.

Once determined to resubmit its NDA by the end of 2020, Intercept now says talks with the FDA have presented a new path to approval in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis that could mean refiling sometime in 2021.