Roche Makes Obesity Splash, Moderna Cans Vaccine Trials, Sarepta’s New Data, More
Roche made the biggest splash this week so far, announcing on Tuesday that GLP-1/GIP injectable CT-388 led to 22.5%weight loss in a Phase II trial. These numbers appear to put CT-388, which Roche acquired in its $2.7 billion Carmot buy, in line with Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, according to William Blair analysts. Roche plans to start a Phase III study of CT-388 in the first half of this year and is also pairing the drug with a therapy from Zealand Pharma, with the aim of offering a weight lossoption with fewer gastrointestinal side effects.
Meanwhile, Baseline Therapeutics debuted to challenge…
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