Investing In Growth & Change

"Forty percent of the U.S. population are technically obese and over ten percent are severely obese. So, we think a lot of the excitement is that, wow, we could apply these therapies to tens of millions of people." Alger Senior Healthcare Analyst, Keye Chow and Associate Analyst Yinglu Zhang, Ph.D., discuss GLP-1's origins as a diabetes drug and some barriers it may face in its attempt to revolutionize the weight loss market.