Drug Makers Have Even Less Reason to Fear Price Reform Now

When a headhunter for the drug industry approached Michelle McMurry-Heath in January about taking the helm of a powerful trade group, she brushed off the offer. She wasn’t interested in making “bad-smelling” positions palatable to Washington. “If you’re looking for a typical lobbyist,” she recalls saying, “I’m not that person.”

McMurry-Heath holds an M.D.-Ph.D., has worked at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Johnson & Johnson, and calls access to medicine “the social justice issue of our time.” The Biotechnology Innovation Organization had accelerated a search for its next leader as the novel coronavirus jumped across borders, and McMurry-Heath ...