Life After Woodcock: US FDA Drug Center’s Leadership Transition
• By Michael McCaughan
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The elevation of the US FDA’s top drug regulator, Janet Woodcock, to oversee COVID-19 response efforts is being framed a temporary step as part of the crisis response. But it is also a try-out for the most significant leadership transition in drug regulation in the US in a generation.
COVID-19 initiatives mark the third time Woodcock has moved up into the commissioner’s office since she first became CDER director in 1994.
No one individual is responsible for all aspects of an organization as large and diverse as the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in the US Food and Drug Administration.
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