Departing FDA Head Gottlieb Advises Successor Sharpless To Heed Center Directors, Defends Budget To Congress

In addition to sharing parting advice he gave to incoming acting US FDA Commissioner Ned Sharpless on leading the agency, current FDA chief Scott Gottlieb told the House Appropriations Committee’s Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA Subcommittee on April 3 that the proposed fiscal year 2020 budget would support a new “knowledge management system” at the agency to make reviews of device product applications more efficient.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in his office
Departing FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb gave incoming agency chief Ned Sharpless a few nuggets of advice

[Editor's note: This story was updated on April 4 with more specific information from US FDA.]

US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told a House Appropriations subpanel April 3 that he gave the agency’s incoming acting director, Ned Sharpless, one or two bits of advice, but the...

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