Jake Auchincloss

A Brookline scientist will launch a Republican campaign for the 4th Congressional District seat currently held by Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss, planning an official campaign launch at the Biogen headquarters in Cambridge on Saturday in an effort to highlight the funding Auchincloss has taken in from the pharmaceutical industry.

“I’m taking on Big Pharma and their high drug prices because Congressman Jake Auchincloss refuses to. Big Pharma funds his campaigns, and when he talks about the problem, he just repeats their talking points”, Dr. Tom Stalcup said in a MassGOP press release announcing his planned weekend launch.

“My opponent takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Pharma, then helps them deflect blame while prices keep rising. That’s not leadership — that’s serving as a shield for the very companies driving the problem,” he said.

According to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings, Auchincloss has accepted donations from the pharmaceutical industry as recently as 2025, including $7,000 in campaign donations from prominent biotech venture capitalist and founder of Rectify Pharmaceuticals Jason Rhodes in December.

Stalcup will be driving a campaign initiative focused on exposing corporate political influence in national politics and pharmaceutical pricing practices. He says he chose the Biogen headquarters as the location for his campaign kickoff because of the national scrutiny directed at the company over its drug pricing for Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm and spinal muscular atrophy drug Spinraza, among other specialty medicines.

“There were years I couldn’t afford health insurance at all — even after the Affordable Care Act,” said Stalcup. “Families across this district are being crushed by rising drug prices, and they’re being told it’s someone else’s fault. But the reality is simple: Big Pharma sets the prices,” he said.

Stalcup plans to outline his plan to lower drug prices, increase transparency, and eliminate protections he says allow pharmaceutical companies to maintain high prices with limited accountability.

“‘Stalcup v. Big Pharma’ is about one simple question: who does government work for—patients or pharmaceutical companies?” Stalcup said. “I’m running to make sure it’s patients,” Stalcup said.

The campaign launch will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday on the sidewalk directly in front of Biogen’s corporate headquarters at 225 Binney Street, Cambridge.