Brittany Trang

Biotech reporter Jonathan Wosen discusses the NIH's significant funding cuts and the looming brain drain that could push young researchers overseas. Health tech reporter Brittany Trang dives into the skeptical reactions towards AI drug developers like Absci and Generate:Biomedicines, who assert they can create drugs from scratch. The conversation sheds light on the potential impact of reduced NIH support on U.S. biomedical innovation and the challenges of relying on AI in drug discovery.

Guests Brittany Trang and Rachel Cohrs Zhang discuss AI in drug development, Medicare coverage for GLP-1 drugs, H5N1 bird flu outbreak, and proposals for obesity drug coverage in Washington, with insights on the first presidential debate's healthcare topics.