Search For Rasi's Successor At EMA Extended

The new head of the European Medicines Agency will need some solid leadership skills to steer the agency through the challenges of Brexit and to engage on issues including quality of innovation, affordability of medicines and improving patient access.

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The deadline for applying to be the next executive director of the European Medicines Agency has been extended to 4 July. The agency’s new boss will replace Professor Guido Rasi, whose second five-year term at the post ends in November 2020.

The original deadline of 13 June to apply for the post was extended last month, implying that not enough...

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