PhRMA’s top lobbyist is on the way out

As the pharmaceutical industry confronts some of the biggest threats to the status quo in Washington in recent memory, its chief lobbying group is drawing on a war chest to get its message out to Congress. Now, though, PhRMA is about to lose its lead messenger.

Rodger Currie, PhRMA's top lobbyist, is leaving the organization at the end of August, STAT's Washington correspondent Nicholas Florko reports. The news was announced internally by the association’s president, Steve Ubl, in an internal email sent late yesterday afternoon. Currie has chosen to “pursue new opportunities.”

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