NCI Director And Former Dx Start-Up Founder Sharpless Will Helm FDA
Executive Summary
After a week of speculation as to who will succeed US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb when he steps down next month, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced during a congressional hearing that National Cancer Institute Director Ned Sharpless will step in as acting commissioner. One note of medtech interest in Sharpless' bio: he was a co-founder of a diagnostics company.
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