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Drug repurposing: The benefits, risks and what we learned from Covid-19

Drug Discovery World

Diana Spencer summarises the key messages from the ‘Drug Repurposing: Challenges and Opportunities’ Symposium held at the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (WCP) 2023. He gave the example of GLP-1 receptor agonist Ozempic, a diabetes treatment, which was successfully repurposed for weight loss as Wegovy.