Garde’s new role will fortify the outlet’s leadership in biopharma coverage and accelerate STAT’s live events franchise.
BOSTON, Oct. 7, 2025 — STAT is thrilled to announce the return of Damian Garde to the newsroom in a new role that will fortify the outlet’s leadership in biopharma coverage and accelerate STAT’s live events franchise.
For eight years, Garde anchored our biotech newsletter and podcast and played a pivotal role in building STAT as the go-to site for biotech and business coverage. Among other honors, he was part of the STAT team that won a George Polk Award in 2022 for coverage of Biogen’s controversial Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm.
Now, as STAT marks its 10th anniversary and looks to its future, Garde is returning in yet another vital role: to strengthen STAT’s standing as the leading authority in biopharma, expand events programming, and showcase the finest writers in health and medicine.
As the reporter at large, live and feature journalism, Garde will help conceive, organize, and moderate STAT live events around the country; produce regular deep profiles and enterprise pieces about compelling figures in biopharma, health, and medicine; and augment STAT’s biotech reporting.
Matthew Herper, senior medicine writer and editorial director of events, said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled at the prospect of working with Damian to bring STAT’s events to the next level. He’s one of the most fluid and creative writers I have ever worked with, a natural on stage, and a brilliant student of biotechnology and drug discovery. Watch this space.”
STAT Summit: Join us next week
The announcement of Garde’s return comes a week before the flagship STAT Summit in Boston on Oct. 15 and 16. The event will convene leaders from biotech, academia, industry, policy, and patient advocacy for two days of panels, interviews, and conversations about breakthroughs, regulation, and the business decisions shaping health care today. Highlights include sessions on gene therapies, drug development, and the evolving relationship between investors and science. For registration and program details, visit https://www.statnews.com/stat-summit-boston/
Celebrating editorial excellence: two major awards
STAT is also proud that over the last two weeks, its reporters have been honored with more major awards recognizing excellence in investigative and science journalism.
- Barlett & Steele Award — STAT won the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for investigative business journalism for the series “Health Care’s Colossus,” an in-depth investigation into UnitedHealth.
- NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards — STAT reporters were honored in two categories: Jason Mast, general assignment reporter, won in the Science Features category for “This father built a gene therapy for his son. Now comes the harder part: saving others’ children, too,” and Eric Boodman, general assignment reporter, won in the Series category for “Coercive Care.”
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Founded in 2015, STAT is a digital media company that focuses on delivering fast, deep, and tough-minded journalism about the life sciences. STAT takes you inside academic labs, biotech boardrooms, and political backrooms, casting a critical eye on scientific discoveries, scrutinizing corporate strategies, and chronicling the roiling battles for talent, money, and market share. With an award-winning newsroom, STAT provides indispensable insights and exclusive stories on the technologies, personalities, power brokers, and political forces driving massive changes in the life sciences industry — and a revolution in human health.
STAT has twice been named a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has won a number of prestigious journalism prizes, including the George Polk Awards, Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, Edward R. Murrow Awards, and SABEW “Best in Business” Awards.
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