Aardvark Therapeutics Reports Exploratory Data from the Terminated HERO and Open-Label Extension Trials

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Aardvark Therapeutics, Inc. (Aardvark or the Company) (Nasdaq: AARD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, small-molecule therapeutics designed to suppress hunger for the treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and metabolic diseases, today reported exploratory efficacy data from its previously terminated Phase 3 Hunger Elimination or Reduction Objective (HERO) trial and open-label extension (OLE) trial. As previously announced, Aardvark unblinded the data accumulated across both the HERO trial and OLE trial to assess the totality of available efficacy and safety data to inform the path forward for ARD-101.