# 395: Biotech investors' plea to Trump, and a busy M&A week Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-readout-loud-1134305/395-biotech-investors-plea-to-trump-and-a-busy-m-a-week Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-readout-loud-1134305/395-biotech-investors-plea-to-trump-and-a-busy-m-a-week.md Podcast: [The Readout Loud](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-readout-loud-1134305) Published: 2026-04-02T19:24:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/TTSAA6976080442.mp3?updated=1775158295 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/TTSAA6976080442.mp3?updated=1775158295 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-readout-loud-1134305/episodes/395-biotech-investors-plea-to-trump-and-a-busy-m-a-week Duration seconds: 1918 ## Resource How has the Food and Drug Administration's recent decisions on rare disease drugs affected investment trends? Why is Eli Lilly getting into sleep medicine? And where did Allison go on her vacation? We discuss all that and more on this week's episode of β€œThe Readout LOUD,” STAT's weekly biotech podcast. Biotech investor Rod Wong joins us to talk about why an industry-patient coalition he's part of sent a letter to President Trump asking for more regulatory flexibility at the FDA. We also discuss the U.S. approval of Eli Lilly's obesity pill, recent deal-making by large pharma companies, a strange story about promotion of psychedelic drugs on YouTube, and more. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-readout-loud-1134305/episodes/395-biotech-investors-plea-to-trump-and-a-busy-m-a-week/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-readout-loud-1134305/395-biotech-investors-plea-to-trump-and-a-busy-m-a-week.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.