UPDATED: Who Can Sign US FDA EUAs? Expect Center Directors And Their Deputies Going Forward
Executive Summary
Agency policy now allows several others, along with the FDA chief scientist, to authorize emergency use of products, including CBER Director Peter Marks, who signed the EUA for the modified dosing of the monkeypox vaccine.
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