The Atypical Commissioner Turns Out Well: Hamburg Receives Mostly Fond Farewell
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Margaret Hamburg’s public health, as opposed to academic medicine, background was off-putting to some in pharma initially, but she’ll leave the agency in March with high drug approval numbers and significant praise for new initiatives such as the breakthrough therapy program.
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