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Cagrilintide

A synthetic analogue of human amylin, acylated with a fatty diacid on a lysine side chain. It acts at the amylin receptors, which are formed when the calcitonin receptor associates with a receptor activity-modifying protein. It is not a GLP-1 analogue and does not share their backbone, which is why it is studied alongside them rather than as one of them.

Cagrilintide has 39 registered human studies on ClinicalTrials.gov, reaching phase 3, covering 23,728 planned or enrolled participants across the 39 studies that published a figure. No FDA-approved product contains Cagrilintide. 90 papers naming it were published in the last ten years.

Collected 2026-08-02 from ClinicalTrials.gov and Drugs@FDA. Counts include only trials whose registered intervention names Cagrilintide; the registry search is fuzzy, so every match is re-checked. None of this says whether Cagrilintide works or is safe.

FDA status

Research only

Human studies

39

Furthest phase

Phase 3

Papers, 10 yr

90

Readership

2,936

monthly average, Feb–Jul 2026

Tracking since 2026-07-29 · About this data

What has actually been tested in humans

B

Reached phase 3 or 4, not approved

39

Registered human studies

Phase 3

Furthest phase reached

23,728

Planned or enrolled participants, across 39 studies that published a figure

None

No FDA-approved product contains it

42 loose registry matches were checked and 39 confirmed — 3 named something else and were discarded. We count a study only when Cagrilintide is named as an intervention in it.

Registered means registered — not that the study finished, and not that it found anything. The grade is mechanical: it is computed from the registry and the FDA record alone, and it grades how much is known, never whether a compound is good or safe. Collected 2026-08-02 from ClinicalTrials.gov and Drugs@FDA. Check the query.

What Cagrilintide is, and what it has been studied for

Cagrilintide is classified by ChEMBL as a protein, and appears in trial registrations under NNC0174-0833. Its FDA substance identifier is AO43BIF1U8.

Across 39 registered trials, it has been studied in Obesity, Overweight, Type 2 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. A condition here is what a sponsor registered the trial under — it records what was investigated, not what was shown.

The trials were run by Novo Nordisk A/S. A named commercial sponsor means a compound is in formal development; its absence does not mean the opposite, only that no company has registered a trial under its own name.

How far it got

Cagrilintide reached Phase 3 across 39 registered trials.Phase 1First given to peoplePhase 2Looking for an effectPhase 3Tested at scalePhase 4Studied after approval

Cagrilintide reached Phase 3 across 39 registered trials.

No FDA-approved product contains Cagrilintide. A compound can stop at any rung for commercial reasons as easily as scientific ones, and the registry does not record which.

Is anyone studying Cagrilintide?

Papers published each year that name Cagrilintide in the title or abstract, with the clinical trials that started in the same year marked beneath. Ten calendar years.

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Vertical axis: papers published that year. Bar for 2026 is hatched because that year is still running.
Publications and trials naming Cagrilintide, by year
YearPublicationsTrials startedComplete year
201700Yes
201800Yes
201900Yes
202000Yes
202182Yes
202261Yes
202358Yes
20241413Yes
2025307Yes
2026348No

90 papers and 39 registered trials between 2017 and 2026. A paper counts when “Cagrilintide” appears in its title or abstract — phrase-matched, so a paper mentioning the words separately is not counted. The total is a single query over the whole window, which is why it does not equal the bars added together: PubMed files a paper under both its electronic and its print publication date, so one paper can appear in two years. Publication volume measures scientific attention, not whether a compound works: a well-studied compound can be well-studied and ineffective. Sources: PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov · collected 2026-08-02.

Published research on Cagrilintide

90 indexed papers name Cagrilintide in their title or abstract. These are the 8 PubMed ranks most relevant. Listing a paper is not a judgement about it, and none of these is summarised here — follow the link and read what it says.

  1. Coadministered Cagrilintide and Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity

    Garvey WT, Blüher M, Osorto Contreras CK, et al.The New England journal of medicine2025

    PMID 4054443310.1056/NEJMoa2502081

  2. Cagrilintide-Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

    Davies MJ, Bajaj HS, Broholm C, et al.The New England journal of medicine2025

    PMID 4054443210.1056/NEJMoa2502082

  3. Once-weekly cagrilintide for weight management in people with overweight and obesity: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled and active-controlled, dose-finding phase 2 trial

    Lau DCW, Erichsen L, Francisco AM, et al.Lancet (London, England)2021

    PMID 3479806010.1016/S0140-6736(21)01751-7

  4. Comparative effectiveness of GLP-1 receptor agonists on glycaemic control, body weight, and lipid profile for type 2 diabetes: systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Yao H, Zhang A, Li D, et al.BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

    PMID 3828648710.1136/bmj-2023-076410

  5. Efficacy and safety of co-administered once-weekly cagrilintide 2·4 mg with once-weekly semaglutide 2·4 mg in type 2 diabetes: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, active-controlled, phase 2 trial

    Frias JP, Deenadayalan S, Erichsen L, et al.Lancet (London, England)2023

    PMID 3736459010.1016/S0140-6736(23)01163-7

  6. Cagrilintide: A Long-Acting Amylin Analog for the Treatment of Obesity

    D'Ascanio AM, Mullally JA, Frishman WHCardiology in review2024

    PMID 3688383110.1097/CRD.0000000000000513

  7. Development of Cagrilintide, a Long-Acting Amylin Analogue

    Kruse T, Hansen JL, Dahl K, et al.Journal of medicinal chemistry2021

    PMID 3428867310.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00565

  8. Efficacy and Safety of Cagrilintide Alone and in Combination with Semaglutide (Cagrisema) as Anti-Obesity Medications: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Dutta D, Nagendra L, Harish BG, et al.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism2024

    PMID 3967678710.4103/ijem.ijem_45_24

Collected 2026-08-02from PubMed, phrase-matched on “Cagrilintide” in title and abstract. Run the same search.

About Cagrilintide

A synthetic analogue of human amylin, acylated with a fatty diacid on a lysine side chain. It acts at the amylin receptors, which are formed when the calcitonin receptor associates with a receptor activity-modifying protein. It is not a GLP-1 analogue and does not share their backbone, which is why it is studied alongside them rather than as one of them.

Also known as
AM833 · NNC0174-0833

Structure and mechanism only. Nothing above describes what this compound is for, and no dose appears anywhere on this page.

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