Over forty years ago in a lab in Boston, biochemist Svetlana Mojsov made an astonishing discovery. She'd conjured up a mixture, GLP-1, that successfully increased insulin levels when blood sugars are high - a mammoth breakthrough for diabetes treatment. It's now the secret sauce in weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, which are taken by 1.6 million people. So why wasn't Mojsov recognised for her work? Why was she, like so many women before her, erased from the story?

Guest: Aimee Donnellan, journalist and author 'Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity'.

Host: Tom Whipple, science writer and special correspondent, The Times.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

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Clips: Sky News

Photo: Stephanie Diani for the Sunday Times Magazine.

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The woman erased from the Ozempic story - The Sunday Story

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The woman erased from the Ozempic story - The Sunday Story