# First Drug to Fix Genetic Obesity's Root Cause Enters Human Trials

- slug: first-drug-to-fix-genetic-obesitys-root-cause-enters-human-trials
- date: 2026-03-20
- category: Biotech & Life Sciences

Clarissa Desjardins's new company has dosed its first subjects in a Phase 1 trial of an oral genetic obesity drug — a pharmacological corrector that takes a fundamentally different approach from GLP-1 agonists.

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