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At our event last night, Pfizer exec Andrew Baum said Chinese biotech is hitting a natural barrier as it expands into riskier R&D. Drew Armstrong has the details here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
Andrew Baum speaks with Endpoints News' Drew Armstrong at MIT, Aug. 6, 2026 (Samantha Barracca for Endpoints News)
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by Drew Armstrong

Chi­na’s rapid ad­vance in biotech will slow as com­pa­nies there be­gin to ex­per­i­ment on the cut­ting edge of R&D, ac­cord­ing to Pfiz­er’s An­drew Baum, who...

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by ENDPOINTS

Bio­Marin drops rare dis­ease as­set af­ter mixed Phase 3: Bio­Marin de­cid­edto dis­con­tin­ue de­vel­op­ment of BMN401, an en­zyme re­place­ment ther­a­py for ENPP1 de­fi­cien­cy, the biotech...

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by Alex Hoffman, Kyle LaHucik

→ One of the most in­flu­en­tial phar­ma ex­ecs at John­son & John­son is re­tir­ing. Jen­nifer Taubert, the world­wide chair of John­son & John­son In­no­v­a­tive...