Commissioner Gottlieb's pilot program also creates dedicated recruitment staff that will work to fill prescription drug user fee-related openings, streamline the hiring process and improve employee retention.
The US FDA's pilot program to improve hiring has two components that may seem at odds with each other but both aim to improve recruitment and retention of employees.
The agency will create a dedicated recruitment unit with full-time staff to ensure FDA can "reliably and predictably identify, recruit...
Merck’s newly approved Enflonsia for RSV is one of the products expected to be recommended for use by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices later this month.
Robert Foster, HHS deputy general counsel and chief counsel for food, research and drugs, is temporarily heading the Office of Chief Counsel, but a permanent appointee is expected after Michael Stuart's confirmation as HHS general counsel.
Cell and gene therapy developers may not have to contend with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s animosity like the traditional pharma industry, but his disinterest in distinguishing between the good and bad actors in the space could backfire.
The group had been laid off as part of the 1 April reduction-in-force, which lead to missed guidance publication deadlines.
