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1. BINSA is back: Senate bill emerges, adding pressure on Treasury to screen China biotech deals
2. FDA to hold adcomm for Grail cancer test that failed in large, randomized trial
3. ‘A chilling effect’: China biotech will slow as it nears R&D frontier, Pfizer’s Baum predicts
4. Updated: BlossomHill, Latigo cap four-IPO week with combined $496M haul
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Jennifer Taubert announces retirement from J&J; Takeda's global TYK2 leader exits
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China biotech is high on the mind these days — including in the Senate, where Max Bayer tells us a bill was unveiled to review US outbound investments. Even so, one Pfizer exec says the Asian giant may be hitting a natural barrier in R&D. Drew Armstrong has the details here.

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Kevin Miller
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Max Bayer

Con­tentious leg­is­la­tion that would clamp down on biotech and phar­ma deals in Chi­na has been in­tro­duced in the Sen­ate, tak­ing the ba­ton from law­mak­ers in...

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The Grail booth at the ASCO 2026 meeting. (Karen Weintraub / Endpoints News)
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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA will host an ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee meet­ing in Sep­tem­ber to re­view Grail's con­tro­ver­sial can­cer test that failed to meet the pri­ma­ry end­point of a...

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Andrew Baum speaks with Endpoints News' Drew Armstrong at MIT, Aug. 6, 2026 (Samantha Barracca for Endpoints News)
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by Drew Armstrong

Chi­na’s rapid ad­vance in biotech will slow as com­pa­nies there be­gin to ex­per­i­ment on the cut­ting edge of R&D, ac­cord­ing to Pfiz­er’s An­drew Baum, who...

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by Kyle LaHucik

A can­cer biotech vy­ing for a piece of As­traZeneca's can­cer ter­ri­to­ry and a pain spe­cial­ist chas­ing Ver­tex's land­mark non-opi­oid drug are cap­ping an IPO-heavy week...

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Peer Review: Weekly biopharma job report
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by Alex Hoffman, Kyle LaHucik

→ One of the most in­flu­en­tial phar­ma ex­ecs at John­son & John­son is re­tir­ing. Jen­nifer Taubert, the world­wide chair of John­son & John­son In­no­v­a­tive...

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