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BIO 2021 Notebook: Biogen CEO On Corporate Responsibility

 
• By Scrip Team and Pink Sheet Team

News and views from day four of the BIO Digital annual meeting include the FDA's plans to use carrots not sticks to improve diversity and reflections on how the pandemic has strengthened biopharmaceutical supply chains. 

BIO 2021 Notebook - Day 4

Biogen, Inc. has gotten a lot of criticism about the $56,000-a-year price tag for its new Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm (aducanumab), given that it was granted an accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration based on a surrogate endpoint and the efficacy still needs to be confirmed. Speaking about corporate responsibility at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) annual meeting with BIO CEO Michelle McMurry-Heath on 17 June, CEO Michel Vountasos said the company has to do a better job communicating its position to the public.

"The company is taking a position that is very responsible that is yet to be understood out there, and we...

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