8 Biopharma Trends to Watch in 2020

2019 saw a new record set for a list price of a prescription therapy—$2.1 million for the gene therapy Zolgensma® launched by AxeVis, a Novartis Company—and resulting renewed concerns over the price of treatments and whether politicos will ever be able to address the issue as the nation’s presidential election campaign season heats up. Also renewed in 2019 was hope that a first treatment indicated for reducing clinical decline in people with Alzheimer’s disease may finally be approved, perhaps as soon as 2020—as well as the ongoing legal wrangle over who invented CRISPR-Cas9, thanks to a second interference proceeding now winding its way through the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.