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What an Indian pharma giant’s new drug find can gain the world’s obesity fight

What an Indian pharma giant’s new drug find can gain the world’s obesity fight
What an Indian pharma giant’s new drug find can gain the world’s obesity fight
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Dilip Shanghvi, managing director, Sun Pharma

Synopsis

Selling weight-loss drugs is an opportunity no pharma company wants to miss. Now a leading drug maker from India joins this bandwagon.

Trust Sun Pharma boss Dilip Shanghvi to be at the cutting-edge of research. After building a band of specialty drugs that exceeds a billion dollars in sales globally, Shanghvi has placed his bets on weight-loss or anti-obesity drugs, a field that has sent pharmaceutical companies across the world in a hot pursuit. Riding on blockbusters such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound, their makers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are ranked the most valuable
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