{"id":3729,"date":"2025-02-13T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2025-02-13T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:09:09","slug":"aardvark-therapeutics-pursuit-of-new-obesity-target-adds-94m-in-ipo-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=3729","title":{"rendered":"Aardvark Therapeutics\u2019 Pursuit of New Obesity Target Adds $94M in IPO Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/02\/aardvark-therapeutics-ipo-obesity-prader-willi-hyperphagia-tas2-aard\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GLP-1 drugs dominate the obesity market, but Aardvark Therapeutics aims to curb appetite by going after a different target: TAS2 receptors in the gut. The biotech\u2019s lead drug candidate is in Phase 3 testing in Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes persistent hunger leading to overeating. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/02\/aardvark-therapeutics-ipo-obesity-prader-willi-hyperphagia-tas2-aard\/\">Aardvark Therapeutics\u2019 Pursuit of New Obesity Target Adds $94M in IPO Cash<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLP-1 drugs dominate the obesity market, but Aardvark Therapeutics aims to curb appetite by going after a different target: TAS2 receptors in the gut. The biotech\u2019s lead drug candidate is in Phase 3 testing in Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes persistent hunger leading to overeating. The post Aardvark Therapeutics\u2019 Pursuit of New Obesity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}