The market for slimming products is not only medically relevant. For diabetics, for example. It is also worth billions. Roche is focusing on the drug Petrelintide. It has a different mechanism of action to the market leaders' drugs. The Swiss pharmaceutical company is cooperating with Zeland Pharma.
The Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostics group Roche is putting up to 5.3 billion dollars on the table to expand its booming slimming products business. Together with the Danish biotech company Zealand Pharma, the development and marketing of the drug Petrelintide is to be driven forward, the Basel-based pharmaceutical manufacturer announced.
