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“She’s just so kind and humble and curious,” Barany says.

Mojsov, an intensely private person, told almost no one about the GLP-1 saga until recently—not her old friend Barany or her former mentee and now friend Bozzacco.

Barany and his brother, chemist Francis Barany at Weill Cornell Medicine, are now supporting Mojsov in speaking up, along with some colleagues at Rockefeller.

“People said it can’t be done,” says chemist George Barany, who was also in the Merrifield lab and is now at the University of Minnesota.

Barany and Mojsov shared an office and struck up a friendship that has endured for 50 years.