US FDA Commissioner: The Waiting Game Continues

The wait for a permanent head of the FDA is continuing into the second year of the Biden Administration. One message is coming through loud and clear: the agency is clearly not a top priority for the White House ... and that might just be a good thing.

Former US FDA Commissioner Robert Califf testified on 14 December, 2021, before the US Senate HELP committee in his bid to lead the agency again
The confirmation process is turning into a real headache for Robert Califf, shown here testifying before the Senate HELP committee on 14 December 2021. • Source: Alamy

Acting US Food & Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock celebrated what must have been a bittersweet first anniversary on the job on 21 January.

Woodcock has been running FDA for a full year now, the longest interim tenure at FDA since Andrew von Eschenbach...

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