Since that time, media reports have indicated he is a finalist to become FDA commissioner in the new administration.

Mr. Uttam Khobragade acted as a Member on High Power Mashlekar Committee on spurious drugs during his tenure as FDA commissioner.

The FDA commissioner and NIH director will continue participating in foundation activities as non-voting board members.

Trudeau says that FDA commissioners who leave the FDA to work for large drug companies are paid millions of dollars.

If you are the CMAJ's editor or FDA commissioner then yes, because scientific freedom is worth the fight.

In 2005, Susan F. Wood, assistant FDA commissioner for women's health and director of the Office of Women's Health, resigned to protest the FDA's delay.

Herbert Ley, Jr., former FDA commissioner; professor of epidemiology, Harvard.

The New Yorker's Michael Specter wrote that this was "the first time anyone can remember that a health secretary publicly opposed the recommendation of the FDA commissioner."

Clinton's FDA commissioner, David A. Kessler, inserted the federal government into the fray by diagnosing teen smoking as a "pediatric disease."

Although his appointment as FDA commissioner in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush won bipartisan approval, many of Kessler's actions were controversial, and he soon became more popular with Democrats than Republicans.