FDA’s No. 2 on RWE, Hype and Speeding Drug Development

Just before PhRMA’s Innovation Day came to a close on Thursday, Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan sat down with the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy to discuss the rise of real-world evidence (RWE), what the technology and biopharma industries are over-hyping and why it’s so difficult to speed up drug development.