Regulatory barriers are forcing drug discovery to move to China

Five years ago, U.S. pharmaceutical companies didn’t license any new drugs from China. By 2024, one-third of their new compounds were coming from Chinese biotechnology firms. Why are U.S. drugmakers sending their business to China? As in many other industries, it’s so much cheaper to synthesize new compounds inside Chinese biotechnology firms once a novel […]

How to think about Trump’s pharma tariffs — before they hit

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. For weeks, President Trump has made it clear that tariffs are going to be slapped on pharmaceuticals. But that is about the only thing that is clear. For the moment, his administration has opened a […]

How to Ride the Biotech Roller Coaster

With stocks starting to price in interest-rate cuts next year, the biotech sector has emerged as a winner for investors seeking riskier bets with more distant payoffs. But investing in this industry is tricky because biotech is a sector of haves and have-nots. While every industry has its winners and losers, the gap in biotech […]