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In this episode of Denatured, you’ll be listening to Jane Hughes, President of R&D and Co-founder of Verdiva Bio, and Jon Rees, CEO and Co-founder of MitoRx Therapeutics. We’ll discuss next-generation obesity solutions tackling GLP-1’s muscle loss and adherence challenges, through innovative muscle preservation, oral administration and combination therapy.
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Novartis is scaling back its pipeline to focus on higher-value assets with stronger commercial potential.
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Govorestat failed its primary composite measure but showed signals of efficacy, leading the company to push forward with an NDA.