R&D Investment By Pharmaceutical Companies Tops $38 Billion In 2004
The growth in R&D continues to support important advances by research scientists and physicians that bring better medical treatments to patients, with a growing focus on biologics (treatments generated from living materials such as venom or bacteria). The biopharmaceutical industry is the most research-intensive major industry in the United States and the U.S. greatly exceeds Europe in biopharmaceutical R&D investment.
The $38.8 billion invested in R&D represents a 12.6 percent increase over expenditures in 2003 and is more than four-and-a-half times the investment in 1990. Of this $38.8 billion, PhRMA member companies spent an estimated $30.6 billion in R&D within the United States, and an estimated $8.2 billion in R&D conducted abroad. PhRMA member companies spent an estimated 18.8 percent of domestic sales on R&D within the United States.
"I am proud that the U.S. biopharmaceutical industry is America's most research-intensive industry and is the world's largest source of investment in discovering better treatments, exceeding the international pharmaceutical industry and the National Institutes of Health. The human and economic cost of disease is too high and new medicines are needed to reduce those costs," said PhRMA president and CEO Billy Tauzin.
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