When drug prices are a Trojan Horse for other costs, we all lose
The way that hospitals benefit from inflated list prices is a common theme across different kinds of drugs dispensed at hospitals and clinics across the country. When drug prices are a Trojan Horse for all kinds of other health care costs, we all lose.
RA TV: Vaccines versus variants
Listen in as RA Capital’s TechAtlas Associates convene to discuss recent Covid-19 news. Learn about the emerging Delta variant, new data from Novavax and CureVac, and the potential association between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis.
Four core principles for biotech board meetings
There are many ways to conduct an efficient board meeting, and every management team and board member has different preferences. But here are four key principles I believe will improve everyone’s experience.
Venture capital evolved to venture creation. Will it stay that way?
The so-called venture creation model has fully taken root, underpinned and enabled by biotech's longest-ever boom cycle and unprecedented sums of available capital.
Venture partnering
Adam Rosenberg lifts the curtain on what biotech venture partners and entrepreneurs-in-residence really do.
The difference between medical debt and "moon debt"
The difference between investing in space exploration and investing in the biotech industry is about who bears the cost: society as a whole or people as individuals.
It’s time to bring generic drug manufacturing back to the U.S.
Repatriating the American drug supply is key not just to averting shortages but to restoring and preserving the integrity of generic drugs in America.
If Trikafta isn’t good enough for ICER, what drug Is?
ICER released a report concluding that Vertex’s groundbreaking triple-combination cystic fibrosis (CF) drug, Trikafta, is too expensive for the value it provides to patients. But is it?
Covid-19 teaches us the real definition of a 'novel drug'
Whatever therapy or intervention solves a previously unmet need is inherently novel. So any treatments for COVID-19 that turn out to work will be "novel" in every way that matters.