Woodcock honored
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA Deputy Commissioner of Operations & COO Janet Woodcock, MD, is the first honoree to be presented with the Personalized Medicine Coalition's (PMC) Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award for her "pioneering role in advancing personalized medicine," PMC announces. The group specifically cites Woodcock's participation in the Critical Path Initiative and the Guidance on Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions programs in honoring her. The FDAer accepted the award Nov. 3 during the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics & Genomics conference in Boston. "Through her determined initiative to introduce pharmacogenomics into the drug approval process, Dr. Woodcock has linked innovation to regulation in an effort to bring safer and more effective drugs to the American public," PMC says...