Brittany Trang
STAT colleague covering AI and its applications, particularly within the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. Author of the AI Prognosis newsletter.
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Feb 13, 2025 • 27min
341: NIH funding cuts, a U.S. brain drain, and bold claims from AI drug developers
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.
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Jun 5, 2025 • 33min
356: An AI experiment at the FDA & Novo trailing in the obesity drug race
Brittany Trang, a STAT colleague and AI expert in the healthcare sector, joins to discuss the FDA's new AI tool, ELSA, which struggles with rectifying past mistakes. She sheds light on Sanofi's $9 billion acquisition of Blueprint Medicines and how it's shaking up the biotech landscape. The conversation also delves into Novo Nordisk's challenges in the obesity drug market, focusing on their strategic errors and the implications of leadership changes, while raising ethical questions about aggressive marketing.
Jun 27, 2024 • 29min
312: Medicare coverage for GLP-1 drugs, AI, and health care at the presidential debate
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.
