New CDER No. 2 May Impact FDA's Safety Monitoring Aspirations

Patrizia Cavazzoni, CDER's new deputy director for operations, has safety surveillance background and wants to see FDA continue to grow its capabilities.

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Patrizia Cavazzoni's safety surveillance expertise may come in handy early in her tenure as the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's deputy director of operations given the US FDA's desire to continue expanding the use of its Sentinel system.

Less than three months into her tenure as the second in command at CDER, Cacazzoni did not list many priorities...

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