Readout LOUD podcast: Pharma tariffs loom

Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on Signal at stataf.54.

How did Ireland become a hotspot for pharmaceutical manufacturing? What are the products that will come out of Flagship’s latest startup centered around “preemptive medicine”? And who among the co-hosts is the best singer?

We discuss all that and more on this week’s episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. We chat about the recent bounceback in biotech stocks, disappointing results from Bristol Myers Squibb’s schizophrenia drug Cobenfy, new allegations about entrepreneur Sam Waksal, and more.

We also bring on STAT’s European correspondent Drew Joseph to talk about the growth of pharma manufacturing in Ireland and how U.S. tariffs would impact global drug supply.

For more on Ireland and tariffs, go here; for more on the recovery in biotech stocks, go here; to learn more the disappointing Cobenfy study, go here; and to read about the lawsuit against Sam Waksal, go here.

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