BIO’s McMurry-Heath tops White House FDA commissioner list

President Joe Biden’s search for a permanent FDA commissioner has boiled down to two candidates, Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock and BIO President and CEO Michelle McMurry-Heath, sources who are in touch with senior White House officials and the two contenders told BioCentury.

The White House hasn’t made a final decision and the search for candidates is continuing, but other individuals who have been publicly identified as potential commissioners have withdrawn or are no longer being considered, the sources said...