Two years in, Phlow Corp. has not delivered on high-tech methods to domestically manufacture cheap generic drugs.
Phlow’s executives met with members of the Trump administration in the fall of 2019, facilitated by Rosemary Gibson, a senior adviser on health care issues at the Hastings Center, a nonprofit, bioethics think tank. Gibson now sits on Phlow’s board of directors.
Continuous manufacturing for pharmaceuticals is a form of advanced manufacturing — a buzzy phrase that has gotten copious amounts of White House attention in recent years. Unlike batch manufacturing, continuous manufacturing involves making drugs on an assembly line at a smaller scale. In 2021, under the Biden administration, BARDA approved Phlow to join a group of companies working with the U.S. government as a contract development and manufacturing organization. HHS also recognized the company with its Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award.
Hackman wouldn’t comment on where Fresenius Kabi obtains the active ingredients for these drugs. In previous conversations with POLITICO, Eric Edwards, Phlow’s co-founder and CEO, confirmed that these active ingredients were “mostly” coming from overseas. Fresenius Kabi declined to comment. Both Medicines for All and AMPAC were listed as subcontractors in Phlow’s initial BARDA contract. A spokesperson from AMPAC would not comment on the dollar amount it received from Phlow for its contract, but Medicines for All received a contract for nearly $13 million.
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