Novo Nordisk has signed a deal worth up to $1bn with Lexicon Pharmaceuticals for the exclusive global rights to LX9851, an experimental oral treatment for obesity and related metabolic disorders.

March 28 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO), opens new tab is licensing Lexicon Pharmaceuticals' (LXRX.O), opens new tab experimental obesity drug in a deal worth up to $1 billion, the Danish ...

Novo Nordisk has been on the hunt for differentiated ... a drug discovered and developed by Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, the companies announced Friday. LX9851 is an oral small molecule that blocks ...

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals shares jumped nearly 75% in early trading Friday after the biopharmaceutical company inked a license agreement potentially worth $1 billion with Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk.

Shares of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:LXRX) climbed ~95% in the premarket trading on Friday after the Texas-based biotech announced an exclusive license agreement with Novo Nordisk (NVO) ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: LXRX) today announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Novo Nordisk A/S ...

Novo Nordisk has signed another obesity ... The Danish drugmaker is licensing a drug called LX9851 from Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, according to an announcement Friday. Lexicon could receive up ...

Shares of Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, plummeted this week.