PEOPLE - US FDA appoints principal deputy commissioner and chief scientist
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The US FDA (Rockville, Maryland) has appointed Frank Torti as principal deputy commissioner and chief scientist, effective from May 2008. The newly-created role of chief scientist is to "ensure that the foundation of the FDA's regulatory structure will always be state-of-the-art science," said Andrew von Eschenbach, commissioner of food and drugs. Dr Torti, a "prominent clinician scientist and researcher in molecular oncology", is currently chair of the department of cancer biology and director of the comprehensive cancer centre at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Winston-Salem, New Carolina).
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