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Does Leadership Count at the FDA?

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Let's go right to the top of the matter as we tackle a final question about the rate at which the FDA has been approving new drugs in recent years. Does it matter who is leading the regulatory agency?

Some investors have speculated that the FDA leader is as important as the R&D budgets of the big pharmas when it comes to the number of drugs approved. Since 2001, there have been five FDA commissioners or acting commissioners at the helm.

Using the data I collected for new molecular entities, new salts, biologics, and new vaccines approved since 2000, I sorted my list of these truly new drug approvals by FDA commissioner, to see if any patterns or noticeable data points emerged.

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