US FDA’s Human Drugs Program Suffers In Adjustment Of Agency Priorities

President Trump's budget request would boost compounding and vaccines by $5m, but human drugs program would lose $4.8m in training funds.

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The FY 2021 FDA budget request adjusts for the beginning of the reduction in annual innovation funds from the 21st Century Cures Act. • Source: Shutterstock

The Human Drugs Program at the US Food and Drug Administration was largely left out of the proposed increases in the fiscal year 2021 budget in what appears to be an adjustment of agency-wide priorities.

The budget request put more focus on other areas, only offering an increase for compounding and vaccine activities within the Human Drugs program. The FDA’s budget request congressional justification...

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