Understanding the final common biological pathway for regulating body weight could lead to permanent genetic or pharmacological interventions for obesity or cardiovascular disease.

“understanding the fundamental biology of how body rate is regulated and governed and critical in terms of understanding those two molecules and my point in this is I don't know if it's going to be for obesity but it may be for other conditions like myocardial infarctions or coronary artery disease that knowing about the biology and sort of the final common mechanism or the final common pathway through which the biology is regulated one may have ways of either pharmacologically or some will say in terms of gene therapy being able to make permanent manipulations”