Scott Got­tlieb aced his con­fir­ma­tion hear­ing, vow­ing to main­tain R&D gold stan­dard

Scott Got­tlieb – April 5, 2017 Zach Gib­son/Get­ty Im­ages

Sen­ate De­moc­rats didn’t waste any time in rais­ing their ob­jec­tions to Scott Got­tlieb as the next FDA com­mis­sion­er.

Sen­a­tor Pat­ty Mur­ray (D-Wash­ing­ton) start­ed her re­marks at Got­tlieb’s con­fir­ma­tion hear­ing this morn­ing voic­ing her con­cerns about “whether you can with­stand po­lit­i­cal pres­sure” in main­tain­ing an un­bi­ased, sci­ence-based ap­proach in main­tain­ing the gold stan­dard on safe­ty and ef­fi­ca­cy re­views of new drugs.

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