Got­tlieb tack­les spec­u­la­tors, FDA trans­paren­cy and the R&D gold stan­dard in a last round of queries ahead of con­fir­ma­tion vote

Field­ing a fi­nal bar­rage of writ­ten ques­tions from a group of skep­ti­cal De­mo­c­ra­t­ic US Sen­a­tors ahead of to­day’s com­mit­tee vote on Scott Got­tlieb’s nom­i­na­tion as head of the FDA, the na­tion’s like­ly next Com­mis­sion­er of Food and Drugs vowed to square off against fi­nan­cial spec­u­la­tors who are gam­ing the sys­tem to charge high prices, reaf­firmed his un­wa­ver­ing sup­port for the coun­try’s gold stan­dard on drug de­vel­op­ment and re­views and called for pub­lish­ing most of what the agency’s CRLs say about reg­u­la­tors’ rea­sons for re­ject­ing a mar­ket­ing ap­pli­ca­tion.

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