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Novo Nordisk to pay up to $2.6bn for rights to Hengrui Pharma weight-loss drug

By Michele Maatouk

Date: Tuesday 29 Sep 2026

(Sharecast News) - Novo Nordisk said on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy the rights to a Hengrui Pharma weight-loss drug for up to $2.6bn.
The license agreement with China's Hengrui is for HRS-1596, a phase 1-ready glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) and gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR) dual agonist, with...

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