Erika Lietzan on ‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast

Subscribe to TWIHL here!

This week’s TWIHL is a deep dive into pharmaceutical patent protection and its intersection with the FDA new drug approval process. We touch on molecular drugs, biosimilars, data exclusivity, market exclusivity, the runway to generics, and fascinating differentials between different drug types or families. This is an intensely complex area and we were glad to have the benefit of a truly expert guide, Erika Lietzan, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri, @lietzan on Twitter, and author of the blog Objective Intent, which explores legal and policy issues associated with the FDA.

Erika was a partner at Covington & Burling, and was deeply immersed for more than a decade in the development of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2010 (creating a pathway for approval of biosimilars), from initial thinking as early as 2002 through negotiation of the primary legislative language in 2006 and 2007, passage in 2009, and enactment in 2010. After enactment she co-authored a comprehensive “legislative history” of this process in the Food and Drug Law Journal. She also worked with individual companies and trade associations on implementation issues from 2010 through 2014.

Erika is an elected member of the American Law Institute, serves in the leadership of the Food & Drug Law Institute and served for many years in the leadership of the Science and Technology Section of the American Bar Association. She is also an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

The Week in Health Law Podcast from Frank Pasquale and Nicolas Terry is a commuting-length discussion about some of the more thorny issues in Health Law & Policy. Subscribe at Apple Podcasts, listen at Stitcher Radio Tunein, or Podbean, or search for The Week in Health Law in your favorite podcast app. Show notes and more are at TWIHL.com. If you have comments, an idea for a show or a topic to discuss you can find us on Twitter @nicolasterry @FrankPasquale @WeekInHealthLaw

Nicolas P. Terry

Nicolas Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law at Indiana University McKinney School of Law where he serves as the Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and teaches various healthcare and health policy courses. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, mobile health, the Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, and the opioid overdose epidemic. He serves on IU’s Grand Challenges Scientific Leadership Team, working on the addictions crisis and is the PI on addictions law and policy Grand Challenge grants. His podcast is at TWIHL.com, and he is @nicolasterry on Twitter.