Fractyl unveils gene therapy that mimics natural GLP-1 for diabetes and obesity
Fractyl - 17-May-2025Therapy cut blood sugar by >200 mg/dL & doubled insulin with 5x less GLP-1 than standard drugs
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A company aiming to bring curative therapies for patients with metabolic disease
At Fractyl, we’re focused on pioneering a new way to address root causes of serious metabolic diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes: in the gut. Our goal is to transform the metabolic disease treatment paradigm—from chronic symptomatic disease management to durable, disease-modifying therapies that aim to solve obesity and type 2 diabetes, for good.
We have assembled a mission-driven team of innovators and experts, all united in their passion to develop breakthrough therapies—the type of therapies we would want for ourselves and our loved ones with these diseases.
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Details last updated 10-Apr-2020
Therapy cut blood sugar by >200 mg/dL & doubled insulin with 5x less GLP-1 than standard drugs
They picked RJVA-001, a gene therapy, as their first clinical candidate
Pills that target the duodenal mucosa will come soon enough