Is biopharma’s first $1.5M therapy now in Phase III?

Keying off of Spark Therapeutics’ rollout of Luxturna as the first approved gene therapy in the US, the analysts at Leerink have been crunching the numbers on what the first hemophilia gene therapies could fetch. And by raising their estimate to $1.5 million, they may well be tempting fate at a time the debate over drug pricing is reaching the boiling point in the US.