Billion Quote by David Mixner

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those…

— David Mixner

If you look at the expenses of a great pharmaceutical company, they pay between about 10 to 15 percent of their expenses for research,…

— Pascal Couchepin

In a large pharmaceutical company, where it's a big bet, you're going to need finance people to be involved in the decision-making because the…

— John Kao

Biologics must be grown in living systems - fermented, for example, in large vats of bacteria cells. This makes them hard to replicate. For…

— Scott Gottlieb

Private companies mostly manufacture medications that resemble what we've already got. They get it patented and, with a hefty dose of marketing, a legion…

— Rutger Bregman

Pharma has a lot of lobbies and a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power and there's very little bidding on drugs. America…

— Donald Trump

Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost…

— Joseph Stiglitz

If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for still-patented advanced…

— Thomas Pogge

The higher cost of getting a generic drug approved by regulators means that many old medicines don't face competitors. It's only after substantial price…

— Scott Gottlieb

Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than…

— Marcia Angell

Gene therapies and other treatments that can cure - not just treat - disease are going to be expensive. All of the cost of…

— Scott Gottlieb