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Heavyweights Eric Boodman

As a kid, his factory work paid for his dad’s cancer care. As an oncologist, his research offers more than survival

Heavyweights Shraddha Chakradhar

At the top of her field, a Covid-19 researcher fights back against a different kind of virus: sexism and power imbalances in science

Heavyweights Lev Facher

How Joe Grogan, a former pharma lobbyist, upended Trump’s drug pricing agenda

Heavyweights Matthew Herper

The entrepreneur behind the cancer immunotherapy revolution

Heavyweights Sharon Begley

‘I really don’t know what happened to Jim’: Friends ask where James Watson’s odious attitudes about race came from

Exclusive Sharon Begley

Out of prison, the ‘father of gene therapy’ faces a harsh reality: a tarnished legacy and an ankle monitor

Heavyweights Eric Boodman

It’s not ‘all in your head’: When other doctors give up on patients, a boundary-breaking neurologist treats them

Heavyweights Helen Branswell

The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

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Heavyweights Lev Facher

‘I’m going to prove you wrong’: How a D.C. power couple used an ALS diagnosis to create a political juggernaut

Heavyweights Erin Brodwin

STAT Plus: The unlikely force shaping Amazon’s health plans: A veteran, doctor, and TV persona with big ideas for tech

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Heavyweights Lev Facher

STAT Plus: Eric Lander is brilliant, connected, and controversial. Now Joe Biden wants him to ‘reinvigorate’ American science

Heavyweights Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: A former FDA chief, brimming with experience but lacking in niceties, surprises Washington by winning Biden’s trust

Heavyweights Usha Lee McFarling

A ‘duty to warn’: An ER doctor, shaped by war and hardship, chronicles the searing realities of Covid-19

Heavyweights Matthew Herper

In the race for a Covid-19 vaccine, Pfizer turns to a scientist with a history of defying skeptics — and getting results

Heavyweights Rebecca Robbins

Priscilla Chan charts an ambitious, unglamorous course to fight disease. (Her husband is involved, too.)

Heavyweights Rebecca Robbins

Billionaire Sean Parker is nerding out on cancer research. Science has never seen anyone quite like him

Exclusive Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: One of the world’s best drug hunters went after Alzheimer’s. Here’s how he lost

Heavyweights Rick Berke

STAT Plus: Billionaire Sean Parker calls China’s gene-edited babies ‘Sputnik 2.0,’ praises FDA, and offers career advice for millennials

Heavyweights Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Elijah Cummings sparred with Martin Shkreli and Mylan’s CEO. Now he’s got a gavel to take on pharma

Heavyweights Sharon Begley

STAT Plus: A pioneer in cancer immunotherapy sees a future where vaccines, CAR-T, and checkpoint inhibitors come together

Heavyweights Ed Silverman and Kate Sheridan

STAT Plus: How Pfizer’s CEO flew under the political radar with price hikes — until he tangled with Trump

Heavyweights Rob Waters

STAT Plus: Her bio reads like Silicon Valley fan fiction. At 23, she’s investing millions in the quest to defy death

Heavyweights Andrew Joseph

He takes on Eric Lander, and the scientific establishment. ‘This is who I am. I get angry.’

Heavyweights Megan Thielking

Meet Nature’s new editor: a geneticist who reads scientific papers like ‘page turners’

Heavyweights Usha Lee McFarling

Near the campus cow pasture, a scientist works to grow human organs — in pigs

Heavyweights Andrew Joseph

A veteran New York litigator is taking on opioid makers. They have a history

Heavyweights Sharon Begley

STAT Plus: Not just for CRISPR: Lemelson-MIT Prize honors Feng Zhang for ‘big ideas that change fields’

Heavyweights Meghana Keshavan

Did he really just tweet that? Dr. Vinay Prasad takes on Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and his own colleagues — with glee

Heavyweights Usha Lee McFarling

The creator of the pig-human chimera keeps proving other scientists wrong

Heavyweights Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Armed with science (and snark), a gynecologist takes on Trump, Goop, and all manner of bizarre health trends

First Opinion Margaret Chan

STAT Plus: My decade leading the WHO: dirty fights and steps toward universal coverage

Heavyweights Sharon Begley

CRISPR pioneer Doudna envisions a world of woolly mammoths and unicorns

Heavyweights Sharon Begley

‘A feature, not a bug’: George Church ascribes his visionary ideas to narcolepsy