Mehta Analysis: Two Pillars of Industry Success Being Shaken
Regulators and policy makers are threatening the long-standing regulatory and patent protection structures that have helped prop the industry for many years. But pharma sustainability should in any case be based on innovation, writes Viren Mehta of Mehta Partners LLC. Regulatory barriers and patent protection are two of the three fundamental pillars on which the biopharma industry success has been built, the third one being innovation. When the famed Framingham Study began in 1948, we could measure only a few…