Fellow pharma powerhouse Roche has also jumped into the oral obesity arena with the $2.7 billion acquisition of Carmot Therapeutics in December 2023, giving it access to CT-388 and CT-868, both of which are dual agonists of the GLP-1 and GIP receptors with best-in-class potential for obesity, Roche said at the time
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