Letters, Testimony & Comments

BIO submitted comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Draft Guidance, Clarification of Orphan Designation of Drugs and Biologics for Pediatric Subpopulations of Common Diseases. The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) and the…

BIO submitted comments after the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) public hearings on Patient-Focused Drug Development: Guidance 1 – Collecting Comprehensive and Representative Input. BIO commends the FDA’s efforts to facilitate the use of…

BIO submitted comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Draft Guidance, Expedited Programs for Regenerative Medicine Therapies for Serious Conditions. This draft guidance provides important information on the expedited programs available…

BIO submitted comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Draft Guidance, Developing Targeted Therapies in Low-Frequency Molecular Subsets of a Disease. BIO welcomes the FDA’s efforts to provide clear, concise guidance on the regulatory…

As the U.S. EPA begins its work to develop the proposed 2019 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO), a group of trade association advocates encourage the agency to take a renewed look at commercially ready cellulosic…

BIO submitted comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Draft Guidance, Pediatric Rare Diseases – A Collaborative Approach for Drug Development Using Gaucher Disease as a Model. BIO appreciates the FDA’s intended goal with the guidance –…

BIO submitted comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Draft Guidance, Grandfathering Policy for Packages and Homogenous Cases of Product Without a Product Identifier. BIO and its member companies are committed to meeting the…

BIO strongly supports CMS’s commitment to improving the quality of the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D programs. We consider it especially important to focus on policies that impact access to prescription drugs and biologicals for Medicare…

BIO supports CMS’s efforts to make changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Fee-for-Service and the Part D Prescription Drug Benefit Programs in a manner that improves overall healthcare quality, while not compromising access to the most…

BIO appreciates the opportunity to comment on these proposed revisions. Patients living with rare diseases often experience significant unmet medical need due to the lack of knowledge about how these diseases are caused or inherited and their…