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BioWorld - Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Obesity

Home » Topics » Disease categories and therapies » Obesity
  • Obesity weight loss
    June 22, 2022
    By Anette Breindl

    Study rekindles hope for exercise pill – or at least, molecular exercise science

    Investigators at Stanford University and Baylor College of Medicine have identified an exercise-induced appetite suppressant that led to weight loss when administered to obese mice. The molecule, Lac-Phe, has led to predictable excitement around the possibility of appetite-suppressing exercise in a pill.
  • Feet on scale
    April 28, 2022
    By Michael Fitzhugh

    Lilly may seek expedited approval for weight loss drug

    Eli Lilly and Co.'s tirzepatide, a high-profile entrant in the global anti-obesity race, hit a key milestone, becoming the first investigational medicine to deliver more than 20% weight loss on average for non-diabetics in a phase III study, said Jeff Emmick, vice president of product development at the company.
  • Feb. 15, 2022
    By Michael Fitzhugh

    Kallyope raises $236M for drugs targeting gut-brain axis

    Kallyope Inc., a company leveraging connections between the gut and brain to develop new medicines for diabetes, obesity and other diseases, has raised $236 million in series D financing to support its work. Readouts of early clinical data for its most advanced programs, phase I small molecules for metabolic disease and gut barrier conditions, will start to arrive later this year, company CEO and President Jay Galeota told BioWorld.
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