Type 2 diabetes

E Ahmad, S Lim, R Lamptey, DR Webb, MJ Davies - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Type 2 diabetes accounts for nearly 90% of the approximately 537 million cases of diabetes
worldwide. The number affected is increasing rapidly with alarming trends in children and …

Engineering protein-based therapeutics through structural and chemical design

SB Ebrahimi, D Samanta - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Protein-based therapeutics have led to new paradigms in disease treatment. Projected to be
half of the top ten selling drugs in 2023, proteins have emerged as rivaling and, in some …

Weekly icodec versus daily glargine U100 in type 2 diabetes without previous insulin

J Rosenstock, SC Bain, A Gowda, E Jódar… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Insulin icodec is an investigational once-weekly basal insulin analogue for
diabetes management. Methods We conducted a 78-week randomized, open-label, treat-to …

Treatment of type 2 diabetes: challenges, hopes, and anticipated successes

MA Nauck, J Wefers, JJ Meier - The lancet Diabetes & endocrinology, 2021 - thelancet.com
Despite the successful development of new therapies for the treatment of type 2 diabetes,
such as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and sodium-glucose …

Switching to once-weekly insulin icodec versus once-daily insulin glargine U100 in individuals with basal-bolus insulin-treated type 2 diabetes (ONWARDS 4): a …

C Mathieu, B Ásbjörnsdóttir, HS Bajaj, W Lane… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Insulin icodec (icodec) is a basal insulin analogue suitable for once-weekly
dosing. ONWARDS 4 aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of once-weekly icodec …

Switching to once-weekly insulin icodec versus once-daily insulin degludec in individuals with basal insulin-treated type 2 diabetes (ONWARDS 2): a phase 3a …

A Philis-Tsimikas, M Asong, E Franek, T Jia… - The Lancet Diabetes & …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Insulin icodec (icodec) is a once-weekly basal insulin currently under
development. ONWARDS 2 aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of once-weekly icodec …

One hundred years of insulin therapy

C Mathieu, PJ Martens… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
At the time of its first clinical application 100 years ago, insulin was presented as the cure for
people with diabetes mellitus. That transpired to be an overstatement, yet insulin has proven …

Once-weekly insulin icodec vs once-daily insulin degludec in adults with insulin-naive type 2 diabetes: the ONWARDS 3 randomized clinical trial

I Lingvay, M Asong, C Desouza, P Gourdy, S Kar… - JAMA, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Once-weekly insulin icodec could provide a simpler dosing alternative to daily
basal insulin in people with type 2 diabetes. Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of …

Derivatization with fatty acids in peptide and protein drug discovery

P Kurtzhals, S Østergaard, E Nishimura… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Peptides and proteins are widely used to treat a range of medical conditions; however, they
often have to be injected and their effects are short-lived. These shortcomings of the native …

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the novel basal insulin Fc (insulin efsitora alfa), an insulin fusion protein in development for once‐weekly dosing …

T Heise, J Chien, JM Beals, C Benson… - Diabetes, Obesity …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of
basal insulin Fc (BIF; LY3209590), a fusion protein combining a novel single‐chain insulin …