Ep. 370 - Calmer waters for FDA; Servier, Lilly deals

FDA’s new leadership is sailing the agency into calmer waters amid a search for a permanent commissioner and permanent center directors. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury Washington Editor Steve Usdin discusses how FDA’s new, interim leaders have changed the tone at the agency and why they are putting medicines derailed under former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary back on track. Usdin also highlights FDA’s new real-time clinical trials initiative.BioCentury’s analysts then turn to deals, including an analysis of the 20 deals Eli Lilly has done this year; Servier’s move to expand in neurology via BD; and Monday’s billion-dollar deals by Incyte, which will acquire Vega Therapeutics, and Johnson & Johnson, which is buying Firefly Bio.The team also discusses Grand Rounds U.S., held last week in Seattle, including the conference’s Rising Star prize winner Sylvain Simon of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.View full story: https://www.biocentury.com/article/659699#FDA #BiopharmaDeals #ClinicalTrials #BiotechMA #GrandRoundsUS01:23 - Grand Rounds Seattle Takeaways04:43 - FDA's New Leaders11:48 - FDA's Real Time Trials Pilot20:40 - Servier Bets on Neuro25:33 - Lilly's Deal Spree30:21 - Dealmaking RoundupTo submit a question to BioCentury’s editors, email the BioCentury This Week team at [email protected] us by sending a text