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| BIO NEWSLETTER Providing Critical Information About the Industry |
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The 2020 BIO International Convention is heading back to San Diego, California next June, and planning is well underway! First order of business? Announcing our theme. This year we reflect on the passion, drive and risk-taking of an industry that consistently strives to accomplish things that others might deem impossible—an industry that goes BEYOND... |
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| HEALTH
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| 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 common myths surrounding intellectual property and the biopharmaceutical industry... |
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| HEALTH |
| The Trump Administration is moving forward with a plan to import foreign price controls into Medicare. Under the proposed International Pricing Index model, the federal government would move away from a long-standing market-based reimbursement system to one that is tied to prices paid in countries with single-payer health care systems... |
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| INDUSTRIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL |
| “As we speculate on the details and implications of the administration’s renewable fuels deal, the future of an entire green industry hangs in the balance,” writes Stephanie Batchelor, VP of BIO’s Industrial and Environmental Section in Biofuels Digest... |
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| INTERNATIONAL |
| The 2019 BIO Latin America was held September 3-4 in the largest metropolis in the Western Hemisphere – Sao Paulo, Brazil. The BIO Latin America Conference, co-hosted by BIO and Biominas Brazil, has solidified itself as the premier life sciences meeting in the Latin America, welcoming over 675 attendees from 28 countries from around the world... |
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