While pharma needs to access biotech's innovation, biotechs and their investors are unwilling to cede late-stage control. This is a recipe for stalemate: the industry needs different partnership structures which fully pay biotech for innovation (with royalties of 20% or more) and leave early-stage development in their hands, while allowing Big Pharma to do the later-stage development and commercialization. To afford these deals, however, Pharma needs to cut their own spending on innovation.
John Maraganore, PhD, President and CEO, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.
If Big Pharma’s late-stage pipelines are any indication, the drug industry is starving for innovation.
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