Eli Lilly to invest $1.2 billion in Puerto Rico to boost U.S. oral medicine production

Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy delivered 16.6% weight loss

Wegovy achieved significant weight loss with one in three study participants losing 20% or more body weight

Rona submits IND for GalNAc-conjugated siRNA targeting obesity

RN3161 is engineered to reduce fat while preserving lean mass, setting it apart from current treatment options

Novo Nordisk’s amylin therapy cagrilintide shows significant weight loss in phase 3 trial

Cagrilintide represents a novel approach to obesity management

Roche’s US subsidiary Genentech breaks ground on $700 million manufacturing facility in North Carolina

The $700 million project is part of Roche’s $50 billion investment in US manufacturing, infrastructure and R&D

Novo Nordisk's H1 sales increased by 24% in Danish kroner

For the 2024 outlook, sales growth is now expected to be 22-28% at CER

Market success of Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug likely to be delayed in Japan, says GlobalData

In March 2023, Japan’s Ministry of Health and Labor Welfare approved Novo Nordisk’s once-weekly subcutaneous glucagon-like peptide-1

Nouryon launches new high-efficiency spherical silica for peptide-based pharmaceuticals

This patent-pending, high-efficiency chromatography media is used for the purification of novel peptide-based pharmaceuticals in the GLP-1 agonist class including type 2 diabetes and obesity treatments

Top 20 global biopharma companies report 3.4% fall in market cap in Q1 2023: GlobalData

Bayer reported the highest market capitalization growth of 23.1% during Q1 2023