Aardvark Therapeutics, Inc. (AARD) Cantor Fitzgerald International Healthcare 2025 Transcript
Aardvark Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AARD) Cantor Fitzgerald International Healthcare Convention 2025 September 3, 2025 11:30 AM EDT
Firm Contributors
Tien-Li Lee – CEO, Secretary & Director
Convention Name Contributors
Joshua Schimmer – Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Analysis Division
Presentation
Joshua Schimmer
Biotech Fairness Analysis Analyst
All proper. I feel we’re able to get began with our subsequent session. I am Josh Schimmer from the Cantor Biotech Fairness Analysis group. More than happy to introduce from Aardvark Therapeutics, Tien Lee, Chief Govt Officer and Founder. Tien, give us a fast snapshot of Aardvark, and we’ll then dive into all issues, TAS2R agonists.
Tien-Li Lee
CEO, Secretary & Director
Okay. Nice. Sure.
Joshua Schimmer
Biotech Fairness Analysis Analyst
And by the way in which, Tien’s birthday is at this time. No higher method than to have fun with us, proper?
Tien-Li Lee
CEO, Secretary & Director
Thanks. Thanks, Josh. Admire it. Sure. So Aardvark is a San Diego-based biotech firm. We’re targeted on small molecule drug improvement. We now have a novel class of medication. It is a gut-brain signaling drug. It is small molecule oral, nevertheless it’s intestine restricted and it largely stays in your intestine, nevertheless it’s signaling gut-brain pathway to mediate a bunch of issues, together with abrogating starvation.
Query-and-Reply Session
Joshua Schimmer
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Analysis Division
And possibly discuss a bit of bit about that pathway, proper? So that you eat one thing bitter, now its style mess, you do not style it. And but it will get into the abdomen. What’s it signaling? What are sort of these upstream results that finally affect urge for food?
Tien-Li Lee
CEO, Secretary & Director
Certain, certain. First off, it is counterintuitive, however you’ve gotten style receptors in your intestine, not simply your mouth. And as you talked about, we bypass the oral cavity, so you do not need to style our drug in your mouth. And it is hitting enteroendocrine cells, that are the cells that assist regulate consuming habits. And
