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Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Prison, and the Fraud That Shook Pharma

Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Prison, and the Fraud That Shook Pharma7 jul1 u 27 min

Send us Fan Mail Episode SummaryAnish Koka and Anthony DiGiorgio sit down with Martin Shkreli — the former hedge fund manager and pharma executive best known for the 2015 Daraprim price increase and his subsequent prison sentence — for a wide-ranging conversation on drug pricing, patent law, and the state of the pharmaceutical industry. Shkreli walks through his path from a teenage hedge fund intern to founding Retrophin and Turing Pharmaceuticals, defends orphan drug economics and the Orphan...