 FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 24, 2021 GLOBE NEWSWIRE -- Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Terns or the Company Nasdaq: TERN, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of small-molecule single-agent and combination therapy candidates for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis NASH and other chronic liver diseases, today announced the initiation of patient dosing in the AVIATION Trial, a Phase 1b clinical trial evaluating TERN-201, an orally-administered, highly selective inhibitor of vascular adhesion protein-1 VAP-1 in patients with NASH. 