MHRA’s Rawlins Plans British Version Of FDA’s Reg Science Centers

The head of UK agency wants Britain to get its own version of the FDA’s Centers of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation network to promote collaborations between it and academia to advance regulatory science through research, education, and scientific exchanges.

Britain should improve its regulatory science expertise by establishing partnerships with top universities similar to FDA’s Centers of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation.

That’s the view of Michael Rawlins, chairman of the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, expressed in a recent interview with "The Pink Sheet" (see related story, Also see...

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