{"id":8168,"date":"2025-11-06T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/fda-melodrama-pfizer-novo-metsera-readout-loud\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:02:22","slug":"fda-melodrama-pfizer-novo-metsera-readout-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/fda-melodrama-pfizer-novo-metsera-readout-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama at the FDA and the Pfizer-Novo bidding war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melodrama at the FDA and the Pfizer-Novo bidding war
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On this week\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Readout LOUD\u201d: \u201cMean Girls\u201d melodrama at the top of the FDA and the latest on the Pfizer-Novo Nordisk bidding war for Metsera.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

On a jam-packed show, your co-hosts, minus the vacationing Allison DeAngelis, chat with STAT\u2019s D.C. correspondent Lizzy Lawrence about a slow-boiling feud<\/a> between Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA\u2019s biologics and vaccine branch, and his staff that has triggered even more exits and plunging morale. On the drug side of the agency, we dish on the shocking exit of director George Tidmarsh<\/a> after he was accused of using his regulatory position to exact personal revenge against a former business partner.\u00a0Bonus: Prasad and Tidmarsh hate each other.<\/p>\n

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Melodrama at the FDA and the Pfizer-Novo bidding war On this week\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Readout LOUD\u201d: \u201cMean Girls\u201d melodrama at the top of the FDA and the latest on the Pfizer-Novo Nordisk bidding war for Metsera.\u00a0\u00a0 On a jam-packed show, your co-hosts, minus the vacationing Allison DeAngelis, chat with STAT\u2019s D.C. correspondent Lizzy Lawrence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154,2146,2595,2282,2612,2265],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-fda","category-novo-nordisk","category-obesity","category-pfizer","category-the-readout-loud","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}