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This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
MHRA leadership: Alasdair Breckenridge is appointed chair-designate of UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Nov. 28. The pharmacology professor has served for the Committee on the Safety of Medicines since 1984 and as chairman since 1999. He has an "excellent understanding of the regulation of pharmaceutical products," DoH says. Breckenridge still must acquire a similar knowledge of medical equipment regulation, however, as consolidation of the Medical Devices Agency and the Medicines Control Agency is expected to retain MDA's focus on devices (1"The Gray Sheet" Sept. 30, 2002, p. 15). One of Breckenridge's first tasks will be to recruit MHRA's first chief executive and a new board...
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