TIME 100 HEALTH - PIONEERS

In the wake of the pandemic, a new era emerges-marked by fresh discoveries, novel treatments, and global victories over disease. These are the most influential people in health in 2024

- Alice Park

The GLP-1 scientists, Akiko Iwasaki, Michael J. Fox, Hadiza Galadanci, Vivek Murthy +92 more

Jens Juul Holst, Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Dan Drucker PAVING THE WAY FOR WEIGHT-LOSS DRUGS

If [GLP-1 drugs] show benefit for even half of these conditions, then that will be a tremendous win for people struggling with them.' -DAN DRUCKER

Newly powerful weight-loss drugs became the biggest story in health in the past year-and Jens Juul Holst, Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Dan Drucker played pivotal roles in making those medications possible. The scientists conducted the early work, beginning in the 1970s, on glucagon-like peptides, or GLPs, that first transformed the treatment of diabetes and now that of obesity.