AAM’s Francer On Tackling Tactics That Hurt Market Access For Gx, Biosimilars

 
• By Anju Ghangurde
  
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Association for Accessible Medicines interim CEO and general counsel Jeff Francer, in an interview with Scrip, discusses the industry body’s continued efforts to ensure that generics and biosimilars are not disadvantaged in the US by the brand name industry's commercial tactics or legal/regulatory moves, and outlines the 'enormous progress' made by generic firms on quality.  

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Jeff Francer, Interim CEO and General Counsel, Association for Accessible Medicines

Jeff Francer, interim CEO and general counsel of the US-based Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM), was in Mumbai to address the India Pharmaceutical Forum, which saw drug makers, regulators and other key stakeholders review and deliberate a host of critical issues concerning quality management, expectations around this, and taking the agenda forward. (Also see "India Pharma Forum: What The FDA, Indian Regulator Flagged Up" - Pink Sheet, 3 March, 2020.)

In an interview with Scrip, Francer said that the generic industry’s collaboration and dialogue with regulators at such events is...

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