FDA Diagnostics Office Seeks Bigger Role In Personalized Medicine
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Historically overlooked office gets leadership, money and hiring okay needed to ramp up its contribution to pan-FDA initiatives, policy discussions.
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