Upton, BIO Discuss Adding National Alzheimer's Study To E&C Innovation Bill

House Energy and Commerce Committee chair Fred Upton (R-MI) said he supports a proposal by the biologics trade lobby to launch a national Alzheimer's study as part of the panel's upcoming medical innovation bill -- an idea also praised by the National Institutes of Health chief at an E&C field hearing last Friday (Aug. 29). Upton said he has been in discussions with Biotechnology Industry Organization President and CEO Jim Greenwood about the group's proposal for a federally funded national,...

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