Vutiglabridin is a novel and safe modulator of PON2, a racemic compound. vutiglabridin is an optimized structural analogue of Glabridin and is superior to Glabridin in terms of weight loss and chemical stability. vutiglabridin ameliorates mptp-induced neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease mice by targeting mitochondrial paraoxonase-2. Vutiglabridin is a clinical phase 2 drug for the treatment of obesity and has therapeutic effects on p-mitochondrial PON2 in a PD model. vutiglabridin penetrates the brain, binds PON2, and restores 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridine (MPP*)-induced neuroblastoma in SH-SY5Y Vutiglabridin significantly attenuated 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced dyskinesia and dopaminergic neuronal damage in mice modeled with PD in mouse experiments.