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1. RTW’s Rod Wong on how China has (and hasn’t) changed his firm’s investment strategy
2. Compounder Olympia Pharmaceuticals eyes peptide opportunity
3. FDA backs Gilead’s Trodelvy for first-line, triple-negative breast cancer
4. Ionis wins FDA label expansion for potential blockbuster triglycerides indication
5. How GSK's new CEO lined up a major buyout to start his time at the top
6. Retraction of high-profile paper on cancer drug timing could hand ammo to China hawks
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Max Bayer
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I'm back from BIO after an action-packed few days. The sun was shining, the tacos were tasty and the conversations were captivating. In my corner of the biopharma universe — covering the industry's relationship with Washington — China was the talk of the town. There was also a sense of stability and momentum under new FDA leadership, underscored by three acting leaders saying on one panel that they're putting last year behind them.

Anything else that stood out to you if you were there? Drop me a line, as the conference's trends help guide our coverage the rest of the summer and beyond.

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Max Bayer
Senior Reporter, Endpoints News
Rod Wong, RTW Investments' chief investment officer
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by Lei Lei Wu

Last week, I sat down with Rod Wong, RTW In­vest­ments' chief in­vest­ment of­fi­cer, at his firm’s of­fice over­look­ing NY­C's Lit­tle Is­land, as New York Knick­s'...

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by Shelby Livingston

An FDA com­mit­tee will meet next month to dis­cuss lift­ing a ban on a num­ber of pep­tides mar­ket­ed for well­ness. Com­pound­ing phar­ma­cies have been gear­ing...

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Manufacturing Day 2026
Biopharma has metabolized the tariff chaos, but the ground keeps shifting under manufacturing and supply chain teams. Hear directly from the experts on what’s changed, what’s working, and what to watch. Join us.
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by Lei Lei Wu

One month af­ter Dai­ichi Sankyo and As­traZeneca’s drug Da­troway re­ceived a key breast can­cer ap­proval from the FDA, the agency has grant­ed Gilead two ap­provals...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

Io­n­is land­ed an FDA ap­proval on Wednes­day that will great­ly ex­pand its com­mer­cial op­por­tu­ni­ty for Tryn­golza.

The an­ti­sense drug may now be used to...

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Luke Miels, GSK CEO
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by Kyle LaHucik

Luke Miels made plans for a big can­cer deal to grow GSK's small on­col­o­gy port­fo­lio be­fore he be­gan as CEO at the start of this...

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by Elizabeth Cairns