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Drug Development in Obesity
Guests: Pete Bak and Christian Thienel
Length: 27 minutes
Airdate: April 30, 2024
In this episode of The Life Science Report, Dr. Pete Bak and Back Bay Director, Christian Thienel catch up on the area attracting the most industry interest over the past couple of years: the anti-obesity space.
From big players looking to capitalize on the renewed interest in the obesity space to the staggering success of Novo Nordisk’s and Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound) for glycemic control and weight loss, there’s a lot to cover.
Topics in this podcast include:
A brief introduction to glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists
Why GLP-1s’ popularity is skyrocketing as treatment for type 2 diabetes and obesity
How amylin and petrelintide (a long-acting amylin analogue) are being newly re-imagined for the obesity space, as well as muscle-targeted approaches like myostatin and activins
Where BD and investor interest lies as these drugs are expected to have north of $150B in sales annually within the next decade
What’s happening in early to late-stage drug development
What the future holds for this sector, possibly to include cannabinoid one receptor inverse agonists and mitochondrial targets for metabolic disease
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