Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Former FDA Commissioner Discusses Government's Role In Drug Discovery.



Medscape (10/16) publishes the transcript from a Medscape One-on-One session between Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute CEO Dr. John C. Reed and Samaritan Health Initiatives President Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, who formerly held positions as FDA commissioner and NCI director. At the discussion, which took place at NIH's Celebration of Science Conference at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. von Eschenbach noted that "academic centers and researchers" are working to discover the "underlying mechanisms" of the diseases; and the "government has to play a critical role in catalyzing and fostering that collaboration. ... We can bring the parts and pieces together as a team to use the brilliance of the science that you, Dr. Reed, have been doing, and others here at NIH and in academic institutions all around the world have been doing, and recognize that science is the means. The end is that we solve people's problems, and we do it together," von Eschenbach emphasized.


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