Duke's Califf Tapped For FDA Deputy Post; Some See Succession Planning

Robert Califf will join FDA in February as deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco. He may be being groomed to become the next commissioner, agency watchers suggest.

FDA scored a major star in the clinical and regulatory world and maybe its next commissioner with the hiring of Robert Califf to oversee its medical product and tobacco operations.

Califf will become deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco and manage the centers for drugs, biologics, devices and tobacco products, as well as the Office of

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