200 CDER Staff Say Goodbye To White Oak, For Now
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Approximately 200 employees in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research are exiled from the agency’s White Oak campus for the next few years due to overcrowding.
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