Crisis at the EMA - but might Rasi return?
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
The decision by Guido Rasi to step aside as executive director of the European Medicines Agency, the result of a procedural dispute between the EU authorities and the former head of the Bulgarian medicines agency, Emil Hristov, is a big blow to the agency and comes at a particularly bad time for the European Commission after the recent resignation of the head of its health directorate1,2.