Biden is looking beyond Woodcock or Sharfstein for FDA commissioner — report

Biden is looking beyond Woodcock or Sharfstein for FDA commissioner — report

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Endpoints
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Neither Janet Woodcock nor Joshua Sharfstein is likely to be nominated as the permanent FDA commissioner, Steve Usdin at BioCentury reports.

The White House is looking for alternatives to Woodcock, the acting chief and longtime CDER director, after opposition from several Democratic senators who are calling on others to block her nomination if her name is put forth, according to Usdin. Sharfstein, the former principal deputy FDA commissioner and current Johns Hopkins professor, is out of the running altogether.