Novo Nordisk buys Akero Therapeutics in the US
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on October 9, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on October 9, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Novo Nordisk has acquired Akero Therapeutics, a US-based company, to enhance its offerings in treating metabolic diseases with high unmet needs.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said on Thursday it had agreed to buy United States based Akero Therapeutics, a clinical-stage company developing innovative treatments for patients with serious metabolic diseases marked by a high unmet medical need.
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, editing by Essi Lehto)
An acquisition is a corporate action in which one company purchases most or all of another company's shares to gain control of that company.
A clinical-stage company is a business that is in the process of developing and testing its products or therapies in clinical trials before they can be marketed.
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