 SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 16, 2021 GLOBE NEWSWIRE -- Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. Nasdaq: PLRX, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapies for the treatment of fibrosis, today announced the successful completion of a Phase 1 trial of PLN-1474, an oral, small-molecule selective inhibitor of the integrin αvβ1 in development for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH with liver fibrosis. Following the successful completion of this study, PLN-1474 has been transferred to Novartis. 