An Action Plan to Secure America’s Biotech Leadership
America pioneered the modern biotechnology industry and has led the world in developing lifesaving medicines for decades. Today, the U.S. biotech industry generates $3.2 trillion in economic output and directly employs more than 2.3 million Americans.
But America's biotech leadership is at risk.
From clinical research and contract services to manufacturing, supply chains, and data analysis, there is increased competition for U.S. companies, our economy, our health, and our security. That creates a growing risk that the United States could lose global prominence and fall behind in developing and manufacturing next-generation medicines.
The global biotech race is our generation's Space Race. America needs a plan to win.
That's why BIO developed BioAdvance: Securing America's Biotech Century - an action plan to secure America's position as the world's biotechnology powerhouse.
Coordinate a national strategy
Establish a White House Office of Biotechnology
Accelerate medical breakthroughs
Accelerate the path to first-in-human clinical studies
Modernize and streamline development at all stages in the United States
Improve access to clinical trials
Build the future in America
Ensure sustained support for academic and government biomedical research
Enable and incentivize U.S. contract manufacturing capacity and expertise
Strengthen intellectual property protections and economic incentives that drive access to capital
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Watch: BIO President and CEO John F. Crowley explains what's at stake in the global biotech race - and how BioAdvance offers a path forward.

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