"The Overlooked Genius Behind the Ozempic Revolution: Svetlana Mojsov's Untold Contribution"
Svetlana Mojsov, a chemist who collaborated with endocrinologist Joel Habener to discover the GLP-1 hormone, has been edged out of the story behind the development of highly effective diabetes and obesity drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Despite showing notebooks of her work on GLP-1 to Massachusetts General Hospital's intellectual property office, she was never followed up with, and Habener was listed as the sole inventor on the granted patents.