Damian Garde

Trump announces 100% tariffs on brand-name drugs, with plenty of carveouts statnews.com/2026/04/02/tru…

NEW: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary marked one year at FDA with a focus on achievements in a speech to staff. He thanked career staff by name, and acknowledged the difficult of the April layoffs. But he said little on the agency’s more recent turmoil. statnews.com/2026/04/01/fda…

Trump administration readies 100% tariffs for some imported drugs statnews.com/2026/04/01/tru…

Eli Lilly’s obesity pill approved by FDA, setting up fierce competition with Novo Nordisk statnews.com/2026/04/01/eli…

I've never fully understood why Insilico Medicine is so popular. But talking to CEO @biogerontology, you start to understand why the company is the way it is — and why he wants to model it after SpaceX. Only in @statnews: statnews.com/2026/04/01/ins…

The scientists behind treating Baby KJ say the FDA is imposing standards that could make it too expensive for them — or any academics — to bring such bespoke therapies to approval. statnews.com/2026/03/31/bab…

America needs more clinics of last resort for patients who can’t get answers statnews.com/2026/03/31/und…

Biotech VCs move upstream in China’s scientific pipelines as competition grows fiercer statnews.com/2026/03/31/ven…

"This kind of hype is dangerous. It undermines more serious science and brings into play doubt about data that’s yet to be presented.” statnews.com/2026/03/31/psy…

Barry Bloom, former dean of @HarvardChanSPH & a leading immunologist, recently died at the age of 88. Two colleagues, @mlipsitch & Yonatan Grad, have written a lovely tribute of the man and his work. statnews.com/2026/03/30/bar…

In private meetings, White House works to win pharma companies’ support for drug pricing bill statnews.com/2026/03/27/mos…

RFK Jr. and a top adviser are continuing the search for a new CDC director past a statutory deadline. trib.al/4P0ZgHK

One thing that really makes the in-person summits we run at STAT so amazing: the people in the room. Here's what happened when we asked some of them for the last big breakthrough they saw. Featuring: the infectious @DrBlytheAdamson, genomcis pioneer @RobertGreene, former FDA CMO and ARCH VC @llborio, biotech leader @ksbosley, and the godfather himself, Stelios Papadopoulos. The answers: AI, gene and cell therapy combined with sequencing babies' DNA, a new take on mRNA vaccines, CRISPR, and data science in health. #STATBreakthrough

FDA approves Denali Therapeutics drug for Hunter syndrome statnews.com/2026/03/25/den…

WASHINGTON — Robert Malone, an outspoken medical doctor and ally of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is stepping away from a panel of federal vaccine advisers after a federal… trib.al/zvBLZ98

Health records giant Epic Systems has "opened up a Pandora’s box," @brittanytrang writes. What happens now? statnews.com/2026/03/23/epi…

Her son needed a fecal transplant for a fearsome C. diff infection. Getting one required a tortuous journey. trib.al/mskPTvJ

Pfizer’s Lyme vaccine shows efficacy, but misses key statistical hurdle statnews.com/2026/03/23/lym…

Inside the delicate, high-stakes search for a new CDC director, via @rickberke statnews.com/2026/03/20/new…

This week's Readout LOUD podcast is now available on all your favorite podcast outlets -- Stelios Papadopolous, the ‘godfather’ of biotech, in conversation with @damiangarde statnews.com/2026/03/20/rea… via @statnews