Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Mar 2017
Trump picks Scott Gottlieb to serve as FDA Commissioner
11 March 2017 - Nominee was senior FDA executive under George W. Bush.
Scott Gottlieb, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. FDA, is President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the agency, according to an emailed statement from the White House.
Gottlieb, 44, served in several senior positions at the FDA during the George W. Bush administration. He has talked extensively about how to lower the cost of prescription drugs by modernising the agency’s approval process and speeding cheaper generic competitors to market.
