AEI Senior Fellow @ScottGottliebMD joins CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the FDA’s new efforts to improve competitiveness with China, new leadership, and where the agency is headed.
The FDA wants to accelerate the early stages of clinical trials and get action the country is losing to China and Australia back on U.S. shores. Former FDA Commissioner @ScottGottliebMD weighs in. https://t.co/nzXTC7krPL
👏👏 US has an inherent advantage in conducting proof-of-concept studies, because good medical care, to support patients receiving complex therapies, is key and US does that best
But the time and cost advantage can’t tilt so heavily against US-based trials or we’ll lose our edge
🧵 Important from FDA today -- a new, broad initiative to improve clinical trial efficiency with aim of maintaining 🇺🇸 biomedical edge over 🇨🇳. Reform entails a long series of small changes that, taken together, tilt the playing field back in US favor. This is a key start...
My editorial in JAMA Health Forum on restoring FDA's strength. 'The periods of greatest credibility--and greatest administrative and legislative success--have coincided with strong career leadership in the centers paired with effective commissioners' @AEI
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I'm honored to be joining the governing council of the National Academy of Medicine, along with four distinguished colleagues and the Academy's new Home Secretary, Dr. Robert L. Phillips.
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New study has strengthened link between infectious mono and Multiple Sclerosis. By analyzing 2 decades of health records, researchers found people who contracted mono as teenagers or adults were 3x more likely to develop MS later vs those who didn’t
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AEI’s @ScottGottliebMD joins CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss why the FDA’s new rare disease framework is an encouraging first step and how FDA can build on the guidance to create a path for the clinical development of new therapies.
My @CNBC segment on how President Trump's drug pricing deals will achieve many of the initial aims set out by tariff proposals, with respect to reshoring drug manufacturing, and how the biggest consumer impact in terms of lower drug costs is set to unfold
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These proposed reforms to pre-clinical drug development and to smoothing the transition to first-in-human studies could be the most consequential steps toward leveling the playing field with China.
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My Op Ed in Today's @PostOpinions "The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement. For some people, a viral infection can have devastating long-term effects."
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FULL INTERVIEW: As the CDC vaccine panel voted last week to stop recommending the birth dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine, former FDA Commissioner @ScottGottliebMD, who now serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healthcare, told @margbrennan that the birth dose in addition to two subsequent doses is "almost 99% effective at preventing that chronic infection." https://t.co/ikMp2KDXsG
My op ed in today's @washingtonpost - 'With China undermining U.S. biotech, here’s how the FDA can counter: Lower the costs of development for American scientists, too.' @AEI
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The U.S. is “not at risk” from the current mpox outbreak right now, @ScottGottliebMD says. But a new variant “that appears to spread a little more easily” is raising concerns about further spread because it has “potentially more pandemic potential,” he adds. Here’s what you need to know: