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USA John Murphy, President and CEO of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM), outlines a compelling vision for improving access to high-quality, affordable medicines in the US. He stresses that by directing greater focus to the generic and biosimilar market, tackling structural challenges, safeguarding supply chains, and enabling strategic domestic investment,…

Global Over the past year, PharmaBoardroom has spoken to pharma executives the world over, collecting unique perspectives from all sides of the industry. Here are the ten most-read interviews of 2022 that range from conversations with one of Korea’s top CDMOs to the American generics association and the Italian regulatory agency,…

USA While patient groups view the United States’ new Inflation Reduction Act as a positive move towards capping out-of-pocket drug costs for older Americans, the innovative pharma industry, after aggressively lobbying against it, still argues that the new legislation will hamper drug development. [The new law] is a significant step in…

Global The COVID-19 pandemic brought the issue of access to medicines to the forefront. Not only did supply chain disruptions lead to initiatives designed to make sure essential medicines reach patients, but the pandemic also served to underline a number of pre-existing access inequalities. Several of PharmaBoardroom’s recent interviewees have discussed…

AAM Dan Leonard, President and CEO of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) and Erik C. Komendant, the organisation’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, spoke to us about drug pricing issues in the United States and where the AAM stands with respect to the Biden administration’s initiatives to make medicines…

USA In the wake of Access! 2022, the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM)’s first in-person annual summit in two years, AAM President and CEO Dan Leonard gives his five takeaways from what he describes as a “rich, complex, and provocative” conference.   The generic and biosimilar supply chains continue to demonstrate…

USA Dan Leonard of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) highlights five key takeaways from the organisation’s remote but dynamic annual conference, and how the US generics and biosimilars industry might evolve post-COVID.   AAM and our member companies have experienced a year like no other, and the lessons of the…

USA Dan Leonard, president and CEO of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) since August 2020, outlines his key agenda priorities as head of the USA’s largest generic industry body, how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the discussion around generics and essential medicines, and his hopes for the Biden administration  …

USA The AAM’s Dan Leonard highlights the savings impact that generic and biosimilar medicines have on US healthcare today and introduces the ‘Secure Our Meds’ campaign which aims to educate policymakers on the importance of generic and biosimilar market competition and how it can be safeguarded.   More than 35 years…

USA A Tale of Two Americas The US stands as the biopharma innovation champion of the world, a global leader on nearly all R&D indices related to investment and innovation. It also holds a tremendous amount of clout, representing half the world’s healthcare market, and the US healthcare industry itself is…

USA AAM President Dan Leonard highlights the findings of the association’s most recent report and re-states the value proposition of generic and biosimilar drugs in the USA.   AAM’s 2020 access and savings report documenting the savings generated by generic prescription drugs once again trumpets the value proposition of generic and…

USA As part of our upcoming US Healthcare and Life Sciences Review, we spoke to key stakeholders – former Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) president & CEO Chip Davis; Carol Lynch, president of Sandoz US, head of Sandoz North America and member of the Sandoz Executive Committee; and Amgen’s biosimilars business…