Pfizer Oncology Research Essay Resources

The following resources are provided to help applicants with their synthesis essay portion of the AMCP Foundation/Pfizer, Inc. Oncology Summer Internship application:

Gene therapies offer a potential to provide treatment options and relieve patients of lifelong chronic care for disease that were previously untreatable. These therapies have come to market with oncology and other rare disease indications and include agents such as axicabtagene ciloleucel, ciltacabtagene autoleucel, and betibeglogene autotemcel to name a few. Along with treatment potential, gene therapies also present unprecedented financial challenges for the healthcare system.

The health plan you work for wants to find a sustainable way to ensure that members can access these therapies. You have been tasked to prepare a report discussing the following:

The health plan you work for is interested in adopting a biosimilar-preferred strategy. You have been tasked to prepare a report discussing the following 

• Identify the challenges associated with this strategy 

• Develop an implementation plan to use to ensure appropriate members access

• Explore literature to identify problems/solutions adopted by other health plans and their associated outcomes 

You will prepare 2 deliverables highlighting the items discussed above. These deliverables include:

• Executive Summary (no more than 250 words) 

• Utilization Management Strategy 

  • In bullet points 

  • 3-5 bullets and no more than 5 sub-bullets 

Resources:

• www.gene-therapies.org

• https://rarediseases.org/gene-therapy/resources

ICER:

• AMCP gene therapy deck or past meeting presentation on the topic

Note:

• Be brief and to the point

• Include at least 2 scientific references (peer-reviewed) from your literature search 

• Cite in APA format

(**Please no doctoral dissertations - the judges will not ready it. Be brief and to the point.)