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Montana’s “Right To Try” Law Woos Longevity Startups
The Experiment State // Illustration by Kate Walker
Montana is rolling out new rules that make it the easiest state for pharmaceutical companies and biohacking startups to operate in and test experimental drugs at scale.
Why It Hits: The Trump administration’s stance on alternative medicine has become notably relaxed under Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while biohacking procedures like CRISPR have recently notched key successes. Together, that may be the perfect concoction for Montana to emerge as the experimental-medicine mecca of the US.
Behind The Therapies: Montana is expanding its “Right to Try” laws — measures that are “designed to ease patients’ access to therapies not approved by the Food and Drug Administration,” per The WSJ.
Companies will now be able to profit from the sale of experimental therapies, medications, and medical devices — as long as they’ve passed a Phase 1 safety trial — by next year.
The state also “signed a bill to create a framework for licensed treatment centers to offer these interventions.”
And these companies will have a pretty wide customer base — Montana is the only state where its Right to Try law doesn’t only apply for those with a terminal illness.
Patients beware: drugmakers and healthcare providers are mostly protected from liability if something goes wrong under Montana state law. It’s the Wild West of medicine.
Risk Assessment: Unsurprisingly, medical professionals and FDA veterans aren’t thrilled with the new law — especially given the potential risks for patients treated as guinea pigs. After all, only 8% of drugs that enter clinical trials ever make it to FDA approval.
But it’s exactly that wealth of data that has healthcare and pharmaceutical businesses rearing for the mountains. A reported 20 companies are eyeing operations in Montana.
Prognosis: With the rise of longevity and health-and-wellness startups, Montana could become a Silicon Valley of experimental healthcare — a hotbed of investment, job growth, and wealthy patients from all across America.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited, Polled, and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.