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Episode 20

How Access Challenges Impact the Drug Development Pipeline

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In this episode, we dive into the pharmaceutical industry's research and drug development side and the real threat that today’s access and affordability challenges and policies pose to innovation. While innovation often starts in universities with government support, biotech, and pharma companies take on the tough, costly job of clinical trials, development, and approval of new drugs. Investment dollars are limited, only the most promising projects get funded, with an expectation there will be a return. However, our current drug payment process and policies like the IRA have added new considerations for investors, risking fewer new drugs being developed. Without changes, patients could face the closing of our nation's medicine cabinet, with fewer new treatments available. This would be an outcome that would be catastrophic for all of us.

Erin Mistry, EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, Cormedix, Inc.


Imran Nasrullah, JD., formerly VP & US Head of BD&L at Bayer, and now Founder, SNAP Life Sciences

Research and development (R&D)

FDA

CF Foundation

Vertex

NIH

AMR (antimicrobial resistance)

The Pasteur Act

HIV

Malaria

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Genentech

Genzyme (Now Sanofi)

Medicare

IRA (Inflation Reduction Act)

COVID-19


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