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Gottlieb Promotes 'Team' Work For Product Reviews

 
• By Derrick Gingery

US FDA Commissioner intends to change agency's siloed structure and move reviewers into teams that will follow products pre- and post-market.

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb

US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb intends to reorganize drug reviewers from multiple disciplines into teams that would handle a product's entire life-cycle, an attempt to break down the siloed nature of many areas within the agency.

In a Nov. 3 speech at the National Press Club, Gottlieb said agency experts that handle pre-market review also should remain involved during post-market monitoring. "[Our scientific officers] must have the stewardship over the products they evaluate that extends throughout the entire product life-cycle," he said

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