Ep. 332 - Obesity in Focus. Plus: What’s Next for FDA

With ObesityWeek yielding eye-catching amylin data and a bidding war that ran to $10 billion for Metsera, weight loss companies were center stage in biotech last week. On the latest edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts explained why Pfizer's victory for the start-up over European rival Novo Nordisk doesn’t necessarily mean a broader U.S. policy shift against foreign acquisitions of domestic biotechs.Turning to ObesityWeek readouts, they discuss Eli Lilly's data for amylin monotherapy eloralintide, arguing that just as Lilly did with GLP-1 agonists, the company is again setting the benchmark by which all other molecules in the class will be measured.BioCentury's analysts also discuss takeaways from Washington Editor Steve Usdin's Commentary, which finds FDA in a crisis of politicized decisions, plummeting morale, and a hollowed workforce, and highlights from BioCentury's interview with gene therapy pioneer Jim Wilson as he rethinks the funding model for ultrarare disease therapies to keep his mission on track. This episode of the BioCentury This Week podcast is brought to you by Voyager Therapeutics.View full story: https://www.biocentury.com/article/657545#ObesityWeek #Amylin #GLP1 #Eloralintide #DrugMechanism #FDA #RareDisease #GeneTherapy00:01 - Sponsor Message: Voyager Therapeutics 01:53 - Pfizer Wins Metsera08:48 - Lilly's Amylin Data13:06 - Funding Ultrarare Therapies20:51 - What's Next for FDATo submit a question to BioCentury’s editors, email the BioCentury This Week team at [email protected] us by sending a text