Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
A biopharmaceutical company that makes medicines for rare genetic diseases of severe obesity, marked by insatiable hunger and excess weight gain. Its marketed drug, IMCIVREE (setmelanotide), is a precision medicine that restores a signaling pathway in the brain controlling hunger and fullness for patients with conditions such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome and POMC deficiency. Founded in 2008 in Boston, the company's name echoes the body's internal rhythm of hunger and metabolism its medicines aim to reset.