Roche Means Business With Biggest Ever Obesity Pact

12 Mar 2025

The Swiss giant has inked a deal potentially worth $5.30bn with Zealand to access the Danish biotech's long-acting amylin analog petrelintide.

Roche has made a major advance in its bid to join Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly at the top of the obesity tree by paying a whopping $1.65bn upfront fee to co-develop and co-commercialize Zealand’s closely watched, potentially best-in-class therapy, petrelintide.

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