FDA’s institutional review board committee
Executive Summary
FDA Assistant Commissioner for Science Linda Tollefson becomes the new chair of FDA's Institutional Review Board's Research Involving Human Subjects Committee July 1. She replaces former RIHSC chair and FDA's Office of Orphan Products Development Deputy Director John McCormick, who plans to retire from the agency soon. McCormick was RIHSC chairman for three and a half years and served as deputy director of OOPD for eight years of his 16 years with the office. His successor at OOPD has not yet been determined, FDA says...
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