Dr Luke McDonagh features in BBC Radio 4 Documentary on Ozempic

Dr Luke McDonagh features in a new BBC Radio 4 documentary ‘The Hunger Game’, tracing the history of Novo Nordisk’s development of semaglutide – the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy. The documentary covers the development of the drug from its earliest stages in the laboratory during the 1990s and early 2000s to its marketing in recent years as a blockbuster weight-loss and ‘lifestyle’ drug. Dr McDonagh is featured in episodes 1 and 5, referring to the patenting of the semaglutide in different jurisdictions around the world. The BBC documentary is accessible here.