Denise Hinton, FDA

FDA+ roundup: FDA chief sci­en­tist de­parts to be deputy sur­geon gen­er­al; New trans­paren­cy on on­col­o­gy ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­provals

An­oth­er se­nior leader at the FDA has moved on, and this time it’s FDA’s chief sci­en­tist Denise Hin­ton, a near­ly 20-year agency vet­er­an who has now moved over to serve as deputy sur­geon gen­er­al.

Rear Ad­mi­ral Hin­ton, who first joined FDA in 2002, served as FDA’s chief sci­en­tist from Ju­ly 2017 through Oc­to­ber, and pre­vi­ous­ly served as deputy di­rec­tor of the FDA’s Of­fice of Med­ical Pol­i­cy in the Cen­ter for Drug Eval­u­a­tion and Re­search, where she con­cur­rent­ly served as Act­ing OMP Di­rec­tor from 2014 to 2016.

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