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An in-depth feature highlights Svetlana Mojsov’s crucial role in discovering GLP-1, the hormone at the heart of Ozempic and related drugs, and a decades-long patent fight in which she was ultimately credited with a share of royalties after being largely sidelined by male colleagues.
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.