Politics, Policy & Law

Calls to make Woodcock permanent FDA commissioner 

Biopharmas, patient advocates say Biden should make the agency veteran more than acting leader

Biopharmas companies and patient advocates say President-elect Joe Biden should pick the long-serving CDER director to run the agency.

News that President-elect Joe Biden plans to ask Janet Woodcock to run FDA on an interim basis in the weeks or months after his inauguration is being celebrated