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Melodrama at the FDA and the Pfizer-Novo bidding war

November 7, 2025

On this week's episode of "The Readout LOUD": "Mean Girls" melodrama at the top of the FDA and the latest on the Pfizer-Novo Nordisk bidding war for Metsera.

On a jam-packed show, your co-hosts, minus the vacationing Allison DeAngelis, chat with STAT's D.C. correspondent Lizzy Lawrence about a slow-boiling feud between Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA's 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 after he was accused of using his regulatory position to exact personal revenge against a former business partner. 

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