Frontiers | The melanocortin receptors as targets for general obesity: contextualizing clinical failures and analyzing future perspectives The melanocortin system is a genetically conserved and clinically validated target for the treatment of obesity. Hundreds of studies establish the role of th...

Excited to share a new review from Endevica Bio examining melanocortin drug development to understand why a clinically validated target kept failing.

Key insight: past failures reflected limitations of the molecules tested—not the melanocortin system itself.
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New preprint up! It has been incredibly rewarding to work on this paper alongside all of the co-authors. And beyond meaningful to continue to use what I learned in my PhD to work toward bringing new therapeutics to patients. Unicorn jobs do exist!