The FDA Decoded: Roles, Responsibilities & What They Mean for Drug Development
What does the FDA actually look like on the inside — and why does its structure matter for drug approvals, rare disease therapies, and biotech investment?
This week on the Making Medicine Podcast, host John Stanford is joined by Jef Akst, senior editor at BioSpace, to break down the FDA's key divisions, what each one is responsible for, and how they shape the drug development landscape.
Jef walks through the roles of CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) and CBER (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) — what each center oversees, how they differ, and why their review…
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