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US FDA's New Neurology Leadership Likely To Face Two Big Reviews In 2020

 
• By Ramsey Baghdadi

Eric Bastings will lead Division of Neurology I, which is expected to handle Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab and Sarepta’s refiling of golodirsen for DMD next year.

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The US Food & Drug Administration’s restructured Office of Neuroscience will have new leadership, but familiar faces, as it confronts challenging, high-profile drug reviews in 2020.

Billy Dunn, one of the agency’s emerging leaders, is now Acting Director of the Office of Neuroscience in the reorganized Office of New Drugs

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