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US FDA Drug Office Reorg Enters Homestretch With Leadership Nods For Three Clinical Offices

 
• By Sue Sutter

Hylton Joffe was named acting director of the new Office of Rare Diseases, Pediatrics, Urologic and Reproductive Medicine but also will continue to serve as Office of New Drugs acting deputy director; agency veterans Ellis Unger and Julie Beitz also tapped for clinical office leadership roles in final stage of massive reorg.

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The rearranging is just about complete for US FDA's Office of New Drugs. • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration announced three new office leaders under the last phase of the massive Office of New Drugs reorganization, one of whom will be doing double duty as OND acting deputy director.

Hylton Joffe, who had been director of the Division of Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Products (DBRUP) under the old OND structure, has been named acting director of the Office of Rare

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