aligos therapeutics, inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses to develop novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in viral and liver diseases. its lead drug candidate is alg-010133, a synthetic oligonucleotide that is in phase i clinical trial for the treatment of chronic hepatitis b (chb). the company is also developing alg-000184, a capsid assembly modulator to treat chb; alg-020572, a oligonucleotide for the treatment of chb; alg-125097, an sirna drug candidate to treat chb; and alg-055009, a small molecule thr-㟠agonist for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. aligos therapeutics, inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in south san francisco, california.