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Podcast: Oncology Center of Excellence Open For Business: Podcast With US FDA’s Richard Pazdur

 
• By Kate Rawson

Three months after the official launch of the Oncology Center for Excellence, applications for cancer products are now being reviewed by OCE medical teams. OCE Director Richard Pazdur provides more details on the process and procedures of the newly established center in a podcast interview.

Richard Pazdur

The US FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence is actively reviewing applications now that an initial structure and operational procedures for the new center have been established.

“We are standing the office up now where people are coming over on detail to staff the OCE,” OCE Director Richard Pazdur said in a podcast interview recorded April 10

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