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An inconsistent boom-and-bust cycle funding environment for early-stage biotech innovations and burdensome regulation threaten the U.S.’s half-century-long dominance in the biotech sector.
Acadia Pharma’s Catherine Owen Adams is one of the founders of a group of small- to mid-cap biotechs advocating against a ‘peanut butter blanket’ approach to drug pricing for small companies.
Former European Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan and former US Senator Richard Burr, speaking on a panel at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, pushed to see a larger picture beyond the Trump administration’s year of chaos and confusion.
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Days after reaching a tentative agreement with a majority of states involved in litigation against the company over its role in the opioid crisis in the United States, Purdue Pharmaceuticals filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
September has been a relatively slow month for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. However, there are two PDFUA dates remaining, although one of those took an unexpected turn that will delay it until later in the year.
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