Ned Sharpless (via AP Images)

Ned Sharp­less in fi­nal run­ning for FDA com­mish with MD An­der­son ex­ec and Har­vard prof — re­ports

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is ap­par­ent­ly down to three fi­nal can­di­dates for the top FDA job as a dead­line for nom­i­na­tion looms. Act­ing com­mis­sion­er Ned Sharp­less is con­tend­ing with Stephen Hahn, chief of ra­di­a­tion on­col­o­gy at MD An­der­son, and Har­vard der­ma­tol­ogy pro­fes­sor Alexa Boer Kim­ball, ac­cord­ing to re­ports.

Con­spic­u­ous­ly ab­sent from the group is Brett Giroir, the con­tro­ver­sial as­sis­tant sec­re­tary of HHS who re­port­ed­ly en­joyed the fa­vor of Alex Azar, his boss at the de­part­ment. Azar end­ed up not rec­om­mend­ing him to the White House for fear of a dif­fi­cult Sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion, sources told Bio­Cen­tu­ry.

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