Membership Qualifications
- Members
- Research Associates
- Who to contact if you qualify
Members
Any person, partnership, corporation, or subsidiary, division or unit thereof, in the United States of America or any of its territories or insular possessions, significantly engaged in the manufacture and marketing of finished dosage form ethical pharmaceutical or biological products under his or its own brand names for the cure, alleviation, mitigation, treatment, prevention or diagnosis of disease, and significantly engaged in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical or biological research and development of new molecular entities or new therapies, preventative, or in vivo diagnostics, or new systems of therapy, prevention, or diagnosis and who will continue to conduct such research and development.
Research Associates
Research Associates shall be persons, partnerships, corporations, or subsidiaries, divisions or units thereof, not eligible for membership under Subsection (a) above, and not subsidiaries or divisions of or owned by a company engaged in the manufacture or marketing of finished dosage form pharmaceutical or biological products, who are:
1. Engaged in research and development (significantly engaged, for profit, in biological research on their own behalf directly related to the development or production of ethical pharmaceutical or biological products for the cure, alleviation, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease).
The above-listed Research Associate category shall have all the rights, privileges and duties prescribed by these By-Laws and defined by the Board of Directors (which may vary by category), and such other rights, privileges and duties as the Board of Directors may from time to time establish by resolution, (except as provided for in Article IV, Section 1), the right to vote. The privileges of Research Associates are limited to the person, partnership, corporation, or subsidiary, division or unit thereof, so elected, and are not transferable or assignable to successors in business or otherwise. In the event there is a substantial change in the ownership of a Research Associate (not involving a public offering of its stock), its membership shall cease unless otherwise recommended by the Committee on Membership and approved by the Board of Directors.
If you believe your company qualifies, please begin the process of joining PhRMA by submitting the required information below to MBAring@phrma.org. Be sure to include the following required information:
1) Name
2) Company name
3) Title
4) E-mail address
5) Phone number
6) Company URL
7) Membership type either:
A. Member
B. Research Associate
