Novo to pay up to $2.6 billion to China's Hengrui for rights to weight-loss pill ↧ ↧ Novo to pay up to $2.6 billion to China's Hengrui for rights to wei... Novo Nordisk ​will pay up to $2.6 billion to Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals for the rights to an experimental weight-loss pill, expanding ‌its pipeline through a second GLP-1 treatment deal with a Chinese partner.