Help Wanted: FDA Begins Search for New CDER Director
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
FDA has a lot of hard work ahead to make the new drug safety law a reality. Its first task: find a new director for the Center for Drug Evaluation & Research. That decision might be the most important one the agency makes in determining how the new law works.
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