Top US FDA Officials Continue To Lament Advisory Cmte. Recruitment Difficulties

Strict conflict of interest rules have hampered the agency's ability to fill advisory committee vacancies.

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While the issues the US Food and Drug Administration has with hiring staff have been widely discussed in the public sphere in recent years, a separate area of onboarding expertise the agency continues to struggle with is recruiting members for its outside advisory committees.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) director Janet Woodcock contended on 7 October at the Biopharma Congress that filling positions for advisory committees is "ironically" the greatest

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