{"id":7390,"date":"2017-05-19T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:18:40","slug":"upstarts-a-pill-with-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/05\/upstarts-a-pill-with-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstarts: A Pill With Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7314\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pill.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of pill\" width=\"754\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pill.jpg 754w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pill-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Gastric bypass surgery not only helps obese patients lose weight but research shows it also puts Type 2 diabetes into remission.<\/p>\n<p>A Baltimore-based startup company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glyscend.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glyscend Inc.<\/a>, under the mentorship of Johns Hopkins researchers and founded by three alumni from the Department of Biomedical Engineering\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cbid.bme.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design<\/a>, is developing a promising pill that researchers say can provide the same benefits as bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass. The pill works by coating the intestines, interrupting the same key neurohormonal signaling pathways that are disrupted by surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Working with School of Medicine mentors <a href=\"http:\/\/neuroscience.jhu.edu\/research\/faculty\/66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pankaj Pasricha<\/a>, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/gastroenterology_hepatology\/specialty_centers\/motility_neurogastroenterology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johns Hopkins Center for Neurogastroenterology<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cbid.bme.jhu.edu\/faculty\/ashish-nimgaonkar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashish Nimgaonkar<\/a>, assistant professor of medicine and CBID associate medical director, the trio\u2014Pratik Patel, MSE \u201914, Michael Parlato \u201914, and Kevin Colbert \u201914 \u2014founded Glyscend four months after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>The company received funding from Johns Hopkins\u2019 Coulter Translational Partnership, TEDCO, VentureWell, and the National Science Foundation. Last year, the startup won $500,000 in Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s QuickFire Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Baltimore-based startup company founded by three Johns Hopkins alumni is developing a promising pill that researchers say can provide the same benefits as bariatric surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1590,121,270,1562,1566,1570,1574,1578,1582,1586,1594],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","tag-glyscend-inc","tag-department-of-biomedical-engineering","tag-center-for-bioengineering-innovation-and-design","tag-gastric-bypass-surgery","tag-pankaj-pasricha","tag-johns-hopkins-center-for-neurogastroenterology","tag-ashish-nimgaonkar","tag-pratick-patel","tag-michael-parlato","tag-kevin-colbert","tag-coulter-translational-partnership","issue-summer-2017"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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