Drug Fix: BIOSECURE Act Advances, Trial Diversity Sticks, Platform Principles Without Designation

Pink Sheet editors and reporter consider the implications of the BIOSECURE Act as it advances through a House committee (:30), whether industry would improve clinical trial diversity with tougher enforcement of the regulation (22:26), as some have suggested, and the FDA’s use of platform technology ideas for gene therapies not participating in the program (33:07).

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