FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned this week, just over a year in the role. It seemed sudden from the outside, but was reportedly a long time coming internally, with months of friction with RFK Jr. Apparently, the fi…
We might finally get a vaccine against Lyme disease ! Maybe. Hopefully? Unfortunately, the confidence intervals in the phase three trial were really wide: after four doses, its efficacy was estimated at 73.2%, with a 95%…
I’ve also been following the BioNTech announcement that co-founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci will leave the company by year-end to start a new biotech focused on next-generation mRNA therapeutics (their third startup)…