Representing all facets of the patient stakeholder community, participants in BIO’s eighth Patient and Health Advocacy Summit (#BIOSummit19) came together to proclaim: “I am BIO.” But as Dr. Julie Gerberding, executive vice president and chief patent officer at Merck and Co., who acted as the event…

On Tuesday, October 8, BIO formally announced that its President and CEO Jim Greenwood would be stepping down from the world's largest biotechnology organization in January 2021. In a letter to BIO staff, Greenwood reflected on his rise to BIO and the accomplishments the organization has achieved…

The Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce is set to examine the U.S. patent system this morning. Ahead of the hearing – and in honor of #ThrowBackThursay – we are resurfacing a piece by BIO’s Tom DiLenge that helps debunk some of the most…

The Trump Administration is moving forward with a plan to import foreign price controls into Medicare. Under the proposed International Pricing Index (IPI) model, the federal government would move away from a long-standing market-based reimbursement system to one that is tied to prices paid in…

Transformative therapies are advancing like never before, and a new class of medicines are changing the way we treat the world’s most devastating and debilitating diseases. Yet while innovative biopharmaceutical companies are doing their part in developing lifesaving products for patients,…

BIO’s Jim Greenwood joined CSPAN’s Washington Journal for a conversation about drug pricing, the latest proposals being considered on Capitol Hill, the need to sustain biomedical innovation, and ways to ensure patients have access to the medicines they need with out-of-pocket costs they can afford…

BIO is out with a new whiteboard video that explores why more and more patients are facing higher costs when they go to the pharmacy to buy their prescription drugs. See how rebates and discounts within the drug cost ecosystem are often not used by insurers to lower patients’ out-of-pocket drug…

Experts recently gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss how importing foreign price controls will lead to less innovation and less patient access to breakthrough treatments. Leaders in biotech innovation, as well as within the patient community, have been sounding the alarm over a Trump-administration…

As the debate on drug pricing continues, our elected leaders will almost certainly adopt policies that will significantly impact—for better or for worse—the lives of many patients. With that in mind, how we do we ensure patients are at the center of this discussion? It starts by recognizing some…

Placing patients at the center of everything the biotech industry stands for is a personal mission for Christi Shaw. In 1996, her mother, Karen, died of breast cancer. It was a tragic time for her and her two sisters. But tragedy would strike again as Christi’s sister, Sherry, was later diagnosed…