TANG PRIZE/Tang Prize laureates recall efforts on diabetes, obesity drugs
09/28/2024 10:48 PM
The three winners of the 2024 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science recalled in Taipei on Saturday their discovery of a peptide hormone that promotes the secretion of insulin and how it came to be used to treat diabetes and obesity.
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