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US FDA Commissioner Transition: Sharpless Audition Is Ending – Will He Get The Part?

 
• By Michael McCaughan

Ned Sharpless has been acting head of the US FDA for five months but has not yet been formally nominated for the permanent post. The emergence of another new name as a possible candidate underscores how uncertain the transition still is.

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It has been six months since Scott Gottlieb announced that he would be resigning as commissioner of the US Food & Drug Administration, and there is still no formal nominee to succeed him.

That is likely to change soon: under federal law governing vacancies for Senate confirmed positions, an agency can only be led by an “acting” for a maximum of 210 days before a nomination is made (or someone else is put in the acting role)

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