FDA’s credibility on the line, plus biotech’s venture wave and a Back to School preview: a BioCentury podcast

With FDA’s independence in question, how the agency handles emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines is becoming ever-more pressing. On the latest edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s Editors discuss the implications of granting an EUA based on Phase II data. They also check in on the state of venture financing for biotech, including the role of crossover investors and the evolving landscape in Europe, and preview BioCentury’s annual Back to School issue.

This year, BioCentury’s Back to School will address biopharma’s once-in-a-generation opportunity to reboot how drug development is done. Editor in Chief Simone Fishburn previews the week-long multimedia event, which will begin Monday Sept. 7 with essays and data analyses produced daily, as well as audio interviews with industry leaders such as Vas Narasimhan of Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS; SIX:NOVN), U.K. Vaccine Taskforce Chair Kate Bingham and former FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan, who is director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy...