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    What is a Lasker Award?
    Sign up for our new wellness newsletter today. The post Scientists Who Pioneered GLP-1 Drugs Honored With Lasker Award appeared first on InsideHook. Each year, the Lasker Awards honor a number of medical professionals doing standout work in research and public service.

    Scientists Who Pioneered GLP-1 Drugs Honored With Lasker Award

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    How did GLP-1 lead to Ozempic?
    That opened the door, said Richard DiMarchi, a chemistry professor at Indiana University who worked on successors to GLP-1s. Novo Nordisk scientists then developed GLP-1 analogs that lasted a week, which led to the semaglutide, or the diabetes drug Ozempic. It was followed by Wegovy, for obesity, which caused an average 15 percent weight loss.

    Research That Led to Obesity Drugs Wins Major Medical Prize

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    Does GLP-1 cause weight loss?
    No one, at the time, was thinking of obesity. That changed when Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, a researcher for Novo Nordisk, saw a research paper by Dr. Stephen Bloom of Hammersmith Hospital in London. In his paper, published in 1996, he reported that when he had injected GLP-1 into rats’ brains, they lost their appetites.

    Research That Led to Obesity Drugs Wins Major Medical Prize

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    How does GLP-1 work?
    Collaborating with Dr. Gordon Weir, and others in Dr. Habener’s lab, she discovered that GLP-1 acts only on the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas and that it exquisitely regulates blood sugar. “Gordon called me and said, ‘You won’t believe how active this is,’” she recalled. “‘Very, very small amounts still stimulate insulin production.

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  3. Lasker Foundation
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    GLP-1-based therapy for obesity - Lasker Foundation

  4. New York Times
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    Research Leading to Ozempic Honored by 2024 Lasker …

    WEB3 days ago · This year’s Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award went to three scientists for their work on GLP-1, the hormone that led to drugs like Wegovy (the same compound is the basis for Ozempic ...

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  5. Harvard Medical School
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    Harvard Medical School Researcher Wins 2024 Lasker …

    WEB2 days ago · Harvard Medical School researcher Joel Habener has won the 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his discovery of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a molecule that has become the …

  6. STAT
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    Long-overlooked scientist shares Lasker Award with …

    WEB2 days ago · Announced on Thursday in New York, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award will be shared by Svetlana Mojsov and Joel Habener, who identified and characterized the GLP-1 hormone in …

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    GLP-1 for Treating Obesity: 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical ...

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  8. JCI
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    Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen awarded …

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  9. The Washington Post
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    Scientists who laid groundwork for weight-loss drugs …

    WEB2 days ago · September 19, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. This year’s prestigious Lasker medical awards recognize a trio of scientists without whom Ozempic and other blockbuster weight-loss drugs might not exist ...

  10. Scientific American
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    Obesity-Drug Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Award for Medical …

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  11. The New England Journal of Medicine
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    Discovery of GLP-1–Based Drugs for the Treatment of Obesity

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  12. PubMed
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    Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen awarded …

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