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After the launch of the first-ever GLP-1 pill for weight loss from Novo Nordisk

this month, obesity was top of mind at the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, which drew thousands of pharma and biotech companies, investors, advisors and analysts.

I sat down with Ray Stevens, the CEO of obesity market hopeful Structure Therapeutics