Lilly drug saves muscle when added to Wegovy weight-loss shot
The combination offers a potential solution to one of the key problems that’s emerged with popular obesity shots.
The combination offers a potential solution to one of the key problems that’s emerged with popular obesity shots.
Questions included whether the Indianapolis-based drugmaker is working to improve insurance coverage for the drug and highlighted users’ concerns about comparisons with Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy.
Boston-based Verve Therapeutics is a Nasdaq-traded company focused on genetic medicines for cardiovascular disease.
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker sees orforglipron as a potential global breakthrough treatment for weight loss and other conditions because it comes in pill form, not an injection.
Persist AI announced a $12 million Series A funding round to support its new Cloud Lab platform, allowing companies to use its lab remotely for research and development.
Lilly in February announced plans to add four U.S. manufacturing sites at yet-to-be-determined sites as part of a roughly $27 billion investment.
SiteOne Therapeutics is developing a non-opioid therapy that targets sodium ion channels in the human body to treat pain and sensory hyperexcitability disorders.
On Thursday, pharmacies were supposed to stop making the copies of the medications that had become popular during shortages of the brand-name drugs.
The Tobias-Lechleiter Institute will focus on getting more Hoosiers enrolled in clinical trials and advancing medical research at IU Health and the IU School of Medicine.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co. announced promising results from a large study of its own tablet in diabetes patients last month.
People taking Eli Lilly and Co.’s obesity drug, Zepbound, lost nearly 50% more weight than those using rival Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy in the first head-to-head study of the medications.
The extended partnership holds the potential to be the largest industry-academic agreement of its kind in the United States, Purdue President Mung Chiang said.
The company has announced more than $50 billion in new U.S. manufacturing investments since 2020.
Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Daniel Skovronsky talked with the IBJ about his hopes for the Lilly Medicine Foundry, which the Indianapolis-based drugmaker broke ground on this week.
Officials from the Indianapolis-based drugmaker said the Lilly Medicine Foundry will help streamline the process of discovering new medicines and getting them to patients.
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker also reaffirmed its 2025 revenue guidance but noted that the calculation was based on existing tariff and trade policies.
By 2023, semaglutide (Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) products made up 70% of all U.S. GLP-1 spending.
By making the expected blockbuster pill in the U.S., Lilly may be able to avoid the impact of Trump’s sweeping tariffs, including possible levies on pharmaceutical products.
Trial data data showed Lilly’s experimental weight-loss pill worked as well as the Ozempic shot, bringing it one step closer to developing a needle-free alternative to injections.
Trump’s order contains proposals to further lower the cost of insulin, importing more low-cost drugs and streamlining the federal approval process for some drugs.