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01 Cover
02 Welcome Letter / Sections
03 Article & Interview Directory
04 Section 1: Introduction
05 Introduction to US Life Sciences
06 Janssen Pharmaceuticals Interview
07 Investment Climate
08 MPM Capital Interview
09 Signet Healthcare Partners Interview
10 Xontogeny Interview
11 Insights from EisnerAmper
12 The Life Sciences Regulatory Climate
13 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Interview
14 PhRMA Interview
15 PBOA Interview
16 Ernst & Young LLP Interview
17 LaVoieHealthScience Interview
18 Section 2: Introducing the Hubs
19 East Coast
20 BioNJ Interview
21 MassBio Interview
22 Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center Interview
23 West Coast
24 Biocom California Interview
25 QB3-Berkeley Interview
26 Section 3: Drug Discovery and Development
27 Therapeutic Fields On Fire
28 Insmed Interview
29 Mammoth Biosciences Interview
30 Innovations Enhancing the Patient Experience
31 Arcturus Therapeutics Interview
32 Karius Interview
33 Expert Insights: Targeted Therapeutics
34 First Wave BioPharma Interview
35 Aphios Corporation Interview
36 Section 4: Contract Manufacturing and Chemicals
37 A Shifting Landscape
38 Syngene International Interview
39 Cambrex Interview
40 Lubrizol Life Science Interview
41 Aenova Group Interview
42 Keeping Up With Demands
43 Cureline Interview
44 Interview: Murli Krishna Pharma
45 PsychoGenics Interview
46 Expert Insights: Innovative Technologies
47 AMPAC Fine Chemicals Interview
48 TCG Lifesciences Interview
49 CordenPharma Interview
50 Quotient Sciences Interview
51 A Post-Pandemic World
52 New Vision Pharmaceuticals Interview
53 Adare Pharma Solutions Interview
54 Ascendia Pharmaceuticals Interview
55 Chemicals Producers and Distributors
56 Brenntag North America Interview
57 BASF Pharma Solutions Interview
58 Section 5: Technology Services
59 Life Sciences Go Digital
60 RxS Interview
61 Insights from Markem-Imaje
62 AiCure Interview
63 WhizAI Interview
64 Section 6: Company Profiles
65 Brenntag Company Profile
66 Adare Pharma Solutions Company Profile
67 Quotient Sciences Company Profile
68 SK pharmteco Company Profile
69 AiCure Company Profile
70 Markem-Imaje Company Profile
71 TCG Lifesciences Company Profile
72 Murli Krishna Pharma Company Profile
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Anne Pritchett, Senior Vice President of Policy, Research and Membership,

PhRMA

"Our organization advocates for public policies that encourage the research and development and manufacturing of new medicines that allow patients to lead longer, healthier, and more productive lives."

Could you introduce our readers to PhRMA and its role within the pharmaceutical industry?

PhRMA represents the nation’s leading biopharmaceutical research companies. Our organization advocates for public policies that encourage the research and development and manufacturing of new medicines that allow patients to lead longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Currently, PhRMA is helping fight Covid-19 through new treatments; vaccines and enhancing future pandemic preparedness remain key priorities. We are also engaging with policymakers and others on health care reforms to make life-saving medicines available and affordable for patients and to support more equitable health care delivery.

How important is the theme of patient centricity in healthcare?

Patients are at the center of everything we do. The patient perspective must be considered in all aspects of a medicine’s life cycle from ensuring patients' experiences, perspectives, needs, and priorities are captured and meaningfully incorporated into drug development and evaluation to considering the patient perspective in assessing the value of new medicines. We support efforts to empower patients to assert greater control over their own health care and policies to ensure they have access to and can afford their medicines at the pharmacy counter.

What role can state and federal legislatures play in establishing more accessible drug pricing?

There is no doubt that the system needs to work better for patients, and many common-sense reforms are available to policymakers. In the US, PhRMA works with policymakers across the country, focusing on policy solutions that address issues like the high out-of-pocket costs patients see due to the increasing use of deductibles and coinsurance. West Virginia, for example, has passed a law that ensures rebates and discounts already given to insurers and other middlemen by biopharmaceutical companies are consistently shared with patients to lower costs at the pharmacy counter. Similar legislation is under consideration in other states.

At the federal level, we are advocating for ideas that would modernize the Medicare Part D prescription drug program by capping what seniors must pay each year for medicines, lowering cost sharing and making seniors’ costs more predictable each month.

How can the industry at large enhance its global supply chains to increase efficiency and resiliency?

We support policies to further enhance resiliency in our supply chains, such as policies to support on-demand manufacturing, adoption of the regulatory flexibilities implemented during the pandemic to allow manufacturers to quickly respond to emerging threats, and federal investments to address critical infrastructure gaps such as the significant gaps in the STEM workforce, all of which are needed to fuel continued innovation.

What has the pandemic shown us about the level of innovation and collaboration possible within the life sciences?

We have seen an unprecedented level of collaboration across the private sector and among public and private sector actors toward a common goal of combatting Covid-19. Biopharmaceutical companies continue to work around the clock to research, develop, and produce safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to save lives.

To date, there have been more than 370 collaborations on Covid-19 vaccines manufacturing and 155 for therapeutics. These voluntary partnerships are occurring in every continent. Longstanding intellectual property (IP) protections, voluntary technology transfers, and partnerships have been critical to the development, authorization, and manufacturing of 13 billion Covid-19 vaccines as of March 2022, with an expected capacity to produce more than 20 billion doses in 2022 – more than enough to vaccinate the entire world.

Which key innovations do you see driving the industry presently, and what is your forecast for the next few years?

Biopharmaceutical innovation is ushering in a new wave of breakthrough treatments in the form of potentially curative cell and gene therapies. These treatments can modify genes in a patient’s body to treat, prevent or even cure a disease, including childhood blindness and spinal muscular atrophy. Right now, there are nearly 400 cell and gene therapies in development including possible treatments for cancer, sickle cell disease, and hemophilia.

Biopharmaceutical researchers accelerated scientific progress by harnessing mRNA technology for Covid-19 vaccines. mRNA technology used in Covid-19 vaccines could lead to major advances in the creation of new vaccines as well as be harnessed to address diseases such as HIV and cancer.

The ability to bring forward advances in these areas relies on a science-based regulatory system, strong intellectual property rights and incentives, and a coverage and payment system that recognizes the value of new medicines to meet patients’ unmet medical needs.

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