Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2019
At least three people in running to head FDA
21 June 2019 - Acting head Norman Sharpless seeks the position, but a Harvard medical center chief executive is also under consideration.
The Trump administration is considering at least two other candidates for the high-profile post of permanent commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, in addition to acting commissioner Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, according to people familiar with the situation.
One of the candidates is Alexa Boer Kimball, a Harvard dermatology professor and president and chief executive of the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the people familiar say. Another is a doctor at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the people said, whom they declined to identify by name.
