The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last week is an important milestone in the history of American biotechnology. I’ve been honored to participate in that history from a variety of perspectives: White House adviser, congressional staff, senior biotech executive, public company board member, lawyer, and venture capital investor. Those…

By David Beier and John Osborn — Health Affairs published this article on June 15, 2022 There is fascination of late with the prospect of exercising Bayh-Dole Act “march-in rights,” primarily as a means of reducing the price of expensive drugs that have been discovered or developed with federal funds. In recently published pieces in Health Affairs…

The middle of a pandemic might seem an odd time to evaluate President Biden’s performance on COVID. …

By David Beier and Sri Devabhaktuni President Biden is taking bold action with his new set of sweeping vaccine measures. While we await more detail on his $65B spending plan, it’s already clear that more work will be needed in the weeks ahead to fight COVID. Military history teaches us…

The deaths of more than 610,000 Americans from COVID — more than virtually every United States war — makes using military analogies appropriate. Our war plan against the virus must have two key elements build strong defenses and don’t help the enemy by giving the virus too many uncontested shots…

By Senator Bill Frist, MD, former Majority Leader, United State Senate, Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz, Harold H. Hines Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, and David Beier, Chief of Domestic Policy, Vice President Al Gore Every new era in American history demands new tools for economic progress and new…

By David Beier and Bob Kocher This article first ran in BioCentury on January 28, 2021 The U.S. is not ready for the next pandemic. Our public health infrastructure and planning process are not up to the challenge, our capacity to treat at-risk citizens is insufficient, and we are not…

With the launch of the Rebuilding Fund, California has laid a foundation for small business recovery, but much more needs to be done This article, co-authored with Pedro Nava and Sean Varner, fellow Little Hoover Commissioners, was first published by Cal Matters on December 8. On Nov. 20, Gov. Gavin…

We’ve all seen photos — like the extraordinary image below students on the Brooklyn waterfront — of how American society adapted to…