Lilly and Pfizer fight for new territory in obesity and diabetes

Lilly’s Mounjaro is unrivalled when it comes to promoting weight loss, an attribute that is likely to make this GIP/GLP-1 agonist one of biopharma’s best-selling drugs. The developer this week laid out plans to do better still, firing the starting gun on pivotal development of two novel diabetes and obesity agents and signalling a substantial ramp in R&D spend.