Ep. 138 - FDA User Fee Endgame, East-West Summit & Biogen

Everything’s at stake for FDA as user fee legislation approaches a critical deadline this week, Washington Editor Steve Usdin says on the latest episode of BioCentury This Week. Usdin details the next steps in the process, which FDA reforms are being dropped from the “clean” user fee bill and the future of healthcare legislation. BioCentury’s editorial team also recaps the top takeaways from Global Blood Therapeutics CEO Ted Love’s appearance on The BioCentury Show, previews the upcoming BioCentury-BayHelix East-West Biopharma Summit and assesses two upcoming milestones for Biogen: an FDA decision on tofersen for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Phase III data for Alzheimer’s therapy lecanemab that’s due from partner Eisai.

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