BIO CEO defends the organization’s about-face on the Biosecure Act

As the head of the trade group BIO and a par­ent to chil­dren with a rare dis­ease, John Crow­ley is per­son­al­ly and pro­fes­sion­al­ly at the cen­ter of a bill tar­get­ing Chi­nese biotechs.

Un­der Crow­ley, BIO switched its stance to sup­port the pro­posed Biose­cure Act that would es­sen­tial­ly ban WuXi AppTec and oth­er con­trac­tors that are ubiq­ui­tous in drug de­vel­op­ment. But among the com­pa­nies that have flagged sup­ply chain risks from the leg­is­la­tion is Am­i­cus Ther­a­peu­tics, a com­pa­ny found­ed by Crow­ley that de­vel­oped a rare dis­ease med­i­cine for his two chil­dren and oth­ers with Pompe dis­ease.

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