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David Rosenthal: belief

22 Jan 2024 Acquired Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

“I think pigs may have come later, but certainly it was both cows and pigs that Nordisk and then Novo were using.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Jan 2024
Publisher
Acquired

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…This is something. You read more about the Novo Nordisk history than I did. Was it cows or was it pigs? Because I know that Denmark has an abundance of pigs, which actually made it pretty well suited to be an early Insulin manufacturer. Interesting. It was both. I think pigs may have come later, but certainly it was both cows and pigs that Nordisk and then Novo were using. They were just basically trying to get their hands on any animal pancreases that they could. Right. If it got islets, we want it.…

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