Novo Nordisk warns EU that new rules will push it to expand faster in US
Novo Nordisk, Europe’s most valuable drugmaker, will accelerate its US expansion at the expense of the EU unless Brussels changes a plan to reform regulation of the industry, the company’s chief executive has said.
Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen said much of the Danish company’s investment in new research technologies was now done in Boston and “the journey of expanding in the US would be further accelerated” if the EU implemented its new pharmaceutical rules that would cut drugmakers’ years of market exclusivity.
Jørgensen, president of EFPIA, the industry association, spoke on Friday as he launched a study outlining the dramatic impact the plan would have — creating what he called a “negative ecosystem”.