Exclusive Interview: Biopharma And A Biden Administration
An Interview With Greg Simon, Former Executive Director Of The Obama Administration’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative
Executive Summary
A Biden administration, if elected, would protect biopharmaceutical innovation, tackle the rising costs of cancer drugs and “promote science, without politics.”
You may also be interested in...
Is There An ‘October Surprise’ Coming For Drug Pricing?
US Congressional Democrats made Halloween the new deadline for President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, to be passed through the reconciliation process. Savings generated from prescription drug price cuts represent a key pot of money to offset the legislation’s other spending initiatives.
Reference Pricing Clauses In US COVID-19 Contracts Leave Drug Industry Vulnerable
Innovation and price controls can coexist in the United States, COVID-19 contracts show. But drug pricing experts also acknowledge the unique circumstances of COVID-19 could make such contracts hard to replicate and argue that reference-pricing strategies may have limited ability to lower prices.
Khushboo Sharma: Improving Regulatory Science, From Industry To FDA And Back
From pre-med to pharma lab rat to deputy director of operations at the FDA, Khushboo Sharma, a 2021 In Vivo Rising Leader and current VP of science and regulatory affairs at BIO, has spent her career pursuing a goal she says the FDA and biopharma industry have in common: ensuring that innovative drugs get to patients.