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The company has an internal once-weekly peptide (NNC-06620419, Phase 2 started October 2025), a ~$2B license on United Laboratories' UBT-251 (Phase 1b/2a running, 19.7% weight loss at 24 weeks in the Chinese Phase 2), a $2.2B collaboration with Septerna for small-molecule oral GPCR agonists including a triple, and a long-running in-house discovery pipeline
Preclinical studies in diet-induced obese (DIO) mice showed that once-weekly administration of the PEGylated GLP-1R/GcgR co-agonist for 1 month dramatically lowered body weight, compared with vehicle treatment [17]
Non-GLP-1 Weight-Loss Strategies for Sustained Affordability GLP-1 medications are tools, not cures
Developed with Harvard-trained dermatologists and clinically tested on all skin tones and types
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