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Slimmer, Faster: Roche Aims To Speed Its Obesity Pill To Market

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

Roche is taking a more hard-nosed approach to portfolio prioritization, and said in its Q2 call that it believes it can move faster with a more slimmed down R&D pipeline.

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If any company can break the current duopoly in obesity treatment enjoyed by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly it could be Roche, but catching up with these frontrunners will not be easy.

Just last week, the Swiss company unveiled promising early Phase I results from its once-daily, oral small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist for the treatment of both type 2 diabetes and obesity. After just four weeks of treatment, it demonstrated clinically meaningful weight loss of 7.3% ( compared with 1.2% weight loss with placebo), which puts it in contention to be a best-in-class oral therapy

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