Janelle Monae arrives for the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, on May 4, 2026.
Singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe arrives for the 2026 Met Gala in New York on Monday.ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70.

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Longtime subscribers of STAT’s newsletter The Readout may recall that when early May rolls around, we have an annual tradition: Met Gala outfits as biopharma logos. (See the previous years’ editions here and here.)

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This year’s Met Gala dress code was “Fashion is Art.” I do believe that all fashion is art, and I’m sure the marketing teams at biotech companies would argue that corporate logos are art, too.

Credit goes to my colleagues Brittany Trang and Allison DeAngelis for finding these pairings!

Carey Mulligan as AlumisPHOTO: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
Janelle Monáe as Insilico MedicinePHOTO: ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images
Naomi Osaka as GileadPHOTO: ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images
Bad BunnyPhoto: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images