India, July 20 -- Pune-based Emcure Pharmaceuticals has announced that Poviztra(R), its co-marketed brand of innovator semaglutide (rDNA origin), will now be available for the treatment of non-cirrhotic metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) in adults with moderate to advanced liver fibrosis (F2-F3), following the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization's (CDSCO) approval of Wegovy(R) for the indication.

The approval makes the innovator molecule from Novo Nordisk, the first and only GLP-1 receptor agonist approved in India for the treatment of the disease. It enables Emcure and its subsidiaries to offer the new indication through Poviztra(R), expanding access to innovator semaglutide for patients living with a progre...