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Steen Riisgaard (born 22 March 1951) is the former president and CEO of the Denmark-based biotech company Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes.He held this position from when Novozymes was founded in a demerger from Novo Nordisk in 2000 until he left the company in 2013 when Peder Holk Nielsen became CEO.
Novo Nordisk A/S is a Danish multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Bagsværd, [3] with production facilities in nine countries and affiliates or offices in five. Novo Nordisk is controlled by majority shareholder Novo Holdings A/S which holds approximately 28% of its shares and a majority (77%) of its voting shares. [4]
He joined the Group Executive Board of Novo Nordisk in 1994 and was handed the responsibility of the medical department of Novo Nordisk. In 2000 the enzyme department was de-merged from Novo Nordisk and became its own entity, Novozymes , and Lars Rebien Sørensen took over the position of CEO for Novo Nordisk , after Mads Øvlisen.
For much of 2024, Novo Nordisk has been crediting Ozempic and Wegovy with the company's success. But just a couple of days ago, Novo quietly announced a major update regarding Rybelsus.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) is an international enterprise foundation focusing on medical treatment and research.. In 2023, the foundation had a net worth of DKK 1,114 billion (US$ 167 billion), [2] [3] making it the wealthiest charitable foundation in the world.
Novo and Lilly were faced with questions from analysts on how they are coping with this imbalance. In the past months, Novo has had to restrict the supply of Wegovy in the U.S. which could ...
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The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research was established at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, to promote basic and applied discovery research on human proteins of medical relevance.