FDA CDER director candidates
Executive Summary
NCI's Daniel Longo, MD, is one name that has been mentioned as a candidate to succeed Carl Peck. Longo is the associate director of the Biological Response Modifiers Program at the National Cancer Institute. Should FDA Commissioner Kessler choose Longo for the job, the selection may be seen as an effort to improve the agency's turbulent relationship with NCI and the oncology community, which last worsened over FDA's crackdown on alleged off-label promotions by Bristol-Myers Squibb for its cancer drugs.
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