By Emily Ford
eford@salisburypost.com
The leader of Duke University’s work at the N.C. Research Campus will not become the next commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
Dr. Rob Califf apparently took his name out of consideration a few weeks ago, according to a former FDA associate commissioner familiar with the process.
Dr. Peter Pitts, now president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, said he didn’t know why Califf pulled out. Califf, who was a finalist for the job, could not be reached for comment.
Califf authored the long-term medical research study based in Kannapolis and named for Research Campus founder David Murdock.
The Washington Post reported today that the Obama administration has tapped Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, a physician and former New York City health commissioner with an interest in bioterrorism, to run the struggling FDA.
Read more in Friday’s Salisbury Post.