Tag: obesity

  • Lilly to build $6.5B Houston factory for its first obesity pill

    Lilly to build $6.5B Houston factory for its first obesity pill

    Dive Brief: Eli Lilly said it will build a $6.5 billion factory in Houston focused on manufacturing the company’s first obesity pill and other small molecule medicines. The 236-acre site will produce active pharmaceutical ingredients, among them orforglipron, a small, oral GLP-1 receptor agonist, according to a news release. The molecule agonist is up for…