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Executive Editor, BioCentury. Host, BioCentury This Week biotech podcast. Jersey Boy happily ensconced in Cali. Princeton. SAIS. Philly Eagles. Opinions=my own.

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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
U.S. spending law a rebuke to proposed White House biomedical cuts. HHS budget law revives pediatric PRVs, increases PBM transparency, writes Washington Editor @steveusdin.bsky.social in BioCentury : biocentury.com/article/658296
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Spending law a rebuke to proposed White House biomedical cuts
Congress has repudiated the Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to biomedical research funding and rejected proposed structural reforms t...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Raising the sun: Japan biotech looks to level up: Can a country rich in Nobel winners and blockbuster drugs grow its biotech culture? I spoke with domestic and Western VCs and Japanese biotech executives to find out. Read the piece in BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/657543
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Raising the sun: Japan biotech looks to level up
Japan is entering its most dynamic biotech phase in decades. After years of undercapitalization, inward-facing company building, and a reliance on pharma g...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Ex-FDA commissioners sound alarm on radical changes to vaccine policy by CBER Director Prasad. They have accused current FDA leadership of threatening the integrity and effectiveness of U.S. vaccine regulation. @steveusdin.bsky.social www.biocentury.com/article/657756
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12 former FDA commissioners sound alarm over FDA vaccine policies
A dozen former FDA commissioners have sounded the alarm about radical changes to vaccine policy announced in an internal memo last week by CBER Director Vi...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Richard Pazdur’s decision to resign as CDER director and retire from FDA was precipitated by a memo CBER Director Vinay Prasad sent to his staff Friday. Washington Editor Steve Usdin has the inside story in BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/657751
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Prasad’s memo, Makary’s vouchers trigger Pazdur’s exit from FDA
Richard Pazdur’s decision to resign as CDER director and retire from FDA was precipitated by a memo CBER Director Vinay Prasad sent to his staff Fri...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
FDA's Vinay Prasad, in his own words -- CBER director’s ‘Black Friday memo’ has broad implications for public health, vaccine manufacturers in BioCentury biocentury.com/article/657740
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FDA’s Vinay Prasad, in his own words
CBER Director Vinay Prasad announced radial changes to FDA’s regulatory framework for vaccines in a memo sent to FDA staff on Friday, Nov. 28. As Bi...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In a BioCentury Guest Column, McKinsey alum Franck Le Deu asks, will the world's toughest arena for drug innovation go the way of EVs? & asks MNCs: Are you ready to enter the China Oktagon? Can you afford not to? Read now in front of BioCentury's paywall: www.biocentury.com/article/657621
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China biopharma — enter the Oktagon
China observers call it the world’s “toughest fitness center.” Get fit here, they say, and you can take on any challenge globally.I li...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Richard Pazdur letter to FDA CDER staff details his management philosophy: “I will do my best to open doors for you. Let’s walk through those doorways together.” Read Pazdur's letter in full in BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/657570
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In his own words: Pazdur’s letter to CDER staff
On his first day as director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Richard Pazdur sent a letter to staff articulating his management phi...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Rick Pazdur takes FDA's CDER job after Kennedy pledges to shield center from political pressure. Washington Editor @steveusdin.bsky.social Usdin explores how Pazdur's past regulatory innovations and policies may read through to the new look FDA in BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/657564
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Pazdur takes CDER job after Kennedy pledges to shield center from political pressure
In a stunning reversal, Richard Pazdur, who turned down the job last week, has agreed to serve as director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and R...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
w/2nd MFN deal, Trump admin's drug pricing strategy coming into focus, but many critical parameters remain murky. The biggest unanswered Q: whether the deals are end or beginning of admin's attempts to remake the U.S. pharma market. via @steveusdin.bsky.social www.biocentury.com/article/657266
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With second deal, MFN comes into focus
With a second “most favored nation” pricing deal, elements of the Trump administration’s drug pricing strategy came into focus last we...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Senate passed Biosecure Act Thursday evening as amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. It's not in House version, but BioCentury's @steveusdin.bsky.social says it's likely to be included in the final version that President Trump will sign by year-end: biocentury.com/article/657251
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Senate passes Biosecure legislation
The Senate passed the Biosecure Act Thursday evening as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. Although the amendment was not included in ...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The biotech industry lost a giant last month, when David Baltimore passed away. I spoke to some of his closest friends and colleagues and wrote this remembrance (in front of our paywall). David Baltimore's enduring legacy: Remembering 'a giant of science’: www.biocentury.com/article/656970
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David Baltimore’s enduring legacy: Remembering ‘a giant of science’
Molecular biologist David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate whose work bridged the worlds of science, medicine and public health, embodied the values that made U...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Peter Marks has joined Eli Lilly as SVP for molecule discovery and head of infectious diseases, marking his return to industry after nearly a decade at FDA, per BioCentury's @steveusdin.bsky.social
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Seeing opportunities among headwinds, TCG X closes $1.3B 3rd fund: BioCentury's @biobonanos.bsky.social speaks with Chen Yu, who sees attractive valuations in private and public equities that could turn into strong returns and draw LPs back into biotech. www.biocentury.com/article/657171
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Seeing opportunities among headwinds, TCG X closes $1.3B third fund
Despite headwinds facing the biotech industry, TCG Crossover’s Chen Yu believes the firm will deploy its new $1.3 billion fund during “a...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Tidmarsh seems 2 be pursuing a personal agenda at FDA, with LI posts like the 1 that drove $AUPH down 16%. Under previous administrations, a CDER director who behaved this way would have been ordered to pack up and leave, writes BioCentury's @steveusdin.bsky.social www.biocentury.com/article/657149
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By pursuing a personal agenda, Tidmarsh risks losing public trust: A Perspective
George Tidmarsh, director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, argues FDA should be run like a biotech company, but a biotech CEO who p...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CMS to propose 'most favored nation' pricing benchmark model. White House reviewing proposed international reference pricing model. Scoop via my BioCentury colleague @steveusdin.bsky.social www.biocentury.com/article/657090
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CMS to propose MFN pricing benchmark model
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for an international reference pricing, or “most favored nation,” system for innovative med...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Former FDA Commish, current NEA Partner Scott Gottlieb warns U.S. against restricting in-licensing drugs from China, saying restrictions could spark 'IP arms race' that would hurt U.S. patients, industry, writes BioCentury Washington Editor @steveusdin.bsky.social: www.biocentury.com/article/657051
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Gottlieb warns against restricting in-licensing drugs from China
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned Friday that restrictions on in-licensing medicines from China could trigger an international IP “arms ...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
$LBRX's IPO 1st to raise >$25M by a pure-play biopharma on NASDAQ since $AARD in February & at $285M it's 2nd largest of '25 after $MTSR. LB finishes the day up 12%. Another win for CEO Heather Turner, who captained Carmot through its takeout by Roche
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
House passes bill seeking to end most U.S.-China academic research collabs. @steveusdin.bsky.social says like Biosecure, the SAFE Research Act is part of a trend in DC to re-define nat security to include basic, applied research on topics such as cancer www.biocentury.com/article/656978
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House passes bill that would end most U.S.-China academic research collaborations
Last week, Cell published a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute and Chinese universities who analyzed 90 datasets from 8,575 tumors to i...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
U.K. nds to find common ground with pharma on reimbursement if it wants to win the comp for life sciences investments. Fortunately for MHRA CEO Tallon creating a world-class reg environment is less contentious. via BioCentury's @steveusdin.bsky.social www.biocentury.com/article/656960
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How Tallon plans to make MHRA a pillar of U.K. life sciences competitiveness
The U.K. government will have to find common ground with pharmas on reimbursement if it wants to win the competition for life sciences investments. Fortuna...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A leaked memo on BIO's strategy is energizing anti-vaxxers, writes BioCentury's @steveusdin.bsky.social. The document describes BIO's investment in pro-vaccine communications, plans to engage with conservatives in and outside the Trump administration
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Amarin, Merck alum Karim Mikhail emerges as possible head of FDA’s CDER, reports @steveusdin.bsky.social
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The biopharma industry is racing to counter the Trump MFN threat: With White House demanding 85% across-the-board drug price cuts, the biopharma industry hopes to avoid catastrophic policies via alternative concessions, writes @steveusdin.bsky.social in BioCentury www.biocentury.com/article/656077
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Industry races to counter Trump MFN threat
Biopharma leaders view President Donald Trump’s push for “most favored nation” drug pricing as a serious, urgent threat. While there i...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Setback for Stealth raises questions about FDA’s implementation of rare disease policies. The biotech’s regulatory odyssey in Barth syndrome exemplifies the problems Makary has vowed to fix. @steveusdin.bsky.social Usdin takes a closer look in BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/656066
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Stealth CRL raises questions about FDA’s implementation of rare disease policies
FDA has issued a complete response letter for elamipretide, sending patients with Barth syndrome, along with the drug’s developer, Stealth Biotherap...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Biggest licensing deal yet for a China biotech asset-PFE taking rights to 3SBio bispecific-is also tied for 3rd largest asset deal ever in biotech. This latest deal in the PD-(L)1 x VEGF space has PFE paying $1.25B u/f. Here's @biobonanos.bsky.social take www.biocentury.com/article/655979
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In biggest licensing deal yet for a China asset, Pfizer takes rights to 3SBio’s bispecific
In the latest and largest deal between a China-based biotech and a larger biopharma for a bispecific with broad potential in oncology, Pfizer is paying 3SB...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Another missed deadline by RFK Jr. & Makary's FDA -- this time for a treatment for a very rare disease: www.biocentury.com/article/655776
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FDA misses PDUFA goal for Stealth’s Barth syndrome treatment
FDA has missed another PDUFA review deadline, this time for a treatment that a small biotech is developing for an ultrarare disease. Stealth Biotherapeutic...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Dear Canada- Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever. ❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaNormalAgain
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
At last, a biotech buy that crosses $1B
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Paul Bonanos @biobonanos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A few words on this morning's Merck KGaA/SpringWorks deal: Two rare tumor treatments, a takeout consummated after months of rumors, and relief from an M&A drought: www.biocentury.com/article/6557...
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Eight-year-run for Pfizer spinout Springworks culminates in Merck KGaA buyout
The takeout of Springworks by Merck KGaA will fortify the German company’s oncology business with a pair of approved drugs for rare tumors, while al...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Hong Kong exchange seizes the moment: Growing momentum at the Hong Kong stock exchange and chaotic policies from the White House may upend the longstanding IPO calculus for Asia’s biotechs. Here's my take in BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/655670
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Hong Kong exchange seizes the moment: a Perspective
Growing momentum at the Hong Kong stock exchange and chaotic policies from the White House may upend the longstanding IPO calculus for Asia’s biotec...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#AACR25 Preview: Bispecific antibodies, targeted protein degraders are front and center at this year’s meeting, driving modality innovation, while post-translational sugar modifications are emerging as a focal point for new target discovery via BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/655676
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Degraders, bispecifics define translational trends at AACR
Bispecific antibodies and targeted protein degraders are front and center at this year’s AACR Annual Meeting, driving modality innovation, while pos...
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Paul Bonanos @biobonanos.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Two key management moves at Galapagos: - CEO Paul Stoffels (ex-JNJ CSO) is retiring this year, but will remain chairman - Ex-Neumora CEO Henry Gosebruch will be CEO of the planned GLPG spinout Release: www.globenewswire.com/news-release... Background ($): www.biocentury.com/article/6546...
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Makeover for Gilead-Galapagos deal to yield newco primed for BD
What has become of Galapagos a little more than five years after its major partnership with Gilead is far from what the partners had envisioned for the meg...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
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Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Makary filling key #FDA spots with Capitol Hill alum Grace Graham, Washington lawyer Lowell Zeta, BioCentury's @steveusdin.bsky.social has learned. They'll join the agency's Office of the Commissioner
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Shanghai ADC play Duality braved one of HK's worst downturns of past 20 yrs to stick its landing on the HKSE, offering hope to China biotechs that have been suffering through a multiyear financing drought. I took a closer look in today's BioCentury www.biocentury.com/article/655632
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Days after Hong Kong tumbles, ADC play Duality braves IPO
Shanghai ADC play Duality braved one of Hong Kong’s worst downturns of the past 20 years to stick its landing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, of...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Not exactly a pick-me-up" said my BioCentury pal Josh Berlin about this week's BioCentury This Week biotech podcast! But trust him, it's the stuff you know you need to know about what's happening at FDA -- and to the XBI: www.biocentury.com/article/655488
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The bear is back: Marks’ ouster, tariffs and a tumbling XBI: a BioCentury podcast
Biotech indexes are tumbling after one of FDA’s last veteran leaders was pushed out by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the threat of tariffs...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just after biotech started to see some green shoots, we're back in a bear market. $XBI cratering in the wake of Peter Marks departure from FDA, looming tariff threat. #FAFO
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
here's a short window left to halt the brain drain at FDA,says BioCentury's @steveusdin.bsky.social Senior managers, office directors, and reviewers with decades of experience have accepted or plan to accept buyout offers. Anxiety is high in White Oaks. www.biocentury.com/article/655391
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Short window to halt FDA brain drain
Marty Makary is on track for Senate confirmation as FDA commissioner as soon as next week, but he’ll have little time for celebration. His immediate...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Shares of WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics are closing in on pre-Biosecure Act levels now that the legislation that sought to rein in China CDMOs and genomics companies appears to have faded away. Read my latest in BioCentury: www.biocentury.com/article/655397
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Wuxi stocks bounce back as Biosecure threat fades
A little more than a year after the introduction of the Biosecure Act, the legislation appears to be dead and shares of the two companies most impacted by ...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Congress is considering a House bill that would eliminate a huge incentive for pediatric drug development, slash funding for innovative biomedical research & give RFK Jr. authority to implement his agenda w/o Congressional consent, writes @steveusdin.bsky.social www.biocentury.com/article/655338
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House spending bill omits PRV reauthorization, slashes biomedical research program
With Congress facing a Friday deadline to pass legislation to avoid a government shutdown, lawmakers are considering a bill passed by the House that would ...
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Stephen Hansen @stephenhansen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My latest on the #Zealand and #Roche deal for amylin agonist pretrelintide: www.biocentury.com/article/655330
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Chasing amylin: Must-have obesity target key to Roche-Zealand deal
The temperature just went up a few more degrees for obesity’s hottest target now that Roche is spending nearly $1.7 billion up front to license...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/02/2025
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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Jeff Cranmer @jcranmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Morale at FDA is sinking as news of firings, dubbed a Valentine’s Day massacre by agency staff, started ricocheting from Reddit threads and social media posts to group text chats and phone calls Friday evening, writes @steveusdin.bsky.social www.biocentury.com/article/655114
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First round of cuts torpedos FDA morale, more firings expected
Morale at FDA is sinking as news of firings, dubbed a Valentine’s Day massacre by agency staff, started ricocheting from Reddit threads and social m...
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.
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RefiningValue.bsky.social @refiningvalue.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Also, while the FDA of the next 4 yrs may not care, the FDA of the future may care once more. And how many pivotal trials being started now will have a PDUFA date within 4 years? Probably not the vast majority
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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Especially shocking because diversity of clinical trials is squarely a scientific necessity if the results are to be representative of and generalizable to the broader population. It's bad science to test a candidate medicine in a non-representative population.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/02/2025
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;
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