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Scott Gottlieb, MD

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Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Contributor CNBC. 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. FDA. Boards: Pfizer, Illumina, TempusAI, United Health

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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My CNBC segment today on the new vaccine EO. The policy is likely to increase pressure on some states to roll back school entrance requirements tied to the pediatric vaccine schedule. www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb on Trump’s vaccine EO: Expect an increase in divide between red and blue states
Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss President Trump's executive order on vaccination schedule for children in the U.S., concerns over food safety, and more.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My Face the Nation segment on Cyclospora, Peptides, Measles. Outbreak stems from growing region in Central Mexico, affecting more than lettuce. Much of reporting delay was upstream of FDA, in identifying initial cluster - CDC's job. Michigan did much of that work www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXdS...
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Former FDA head praises response to cyclospora outbreak, but says it's not "under control yet"
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My segment on @cnbc.com on cyclospora in bagged lettuce and FDA’s effort to trace cases to a grower in Mexico and isolate the root cause of the outbreak. Discussed steps consumers can take. FDA’s ongoing oversight should mitigate risks. youtu.be/_eYJbYhS_jQ?...
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb on cyclospora outbreak: The false positive test result is 'a red herring'
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Robert Califf @robcaliff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Straight talk and common sense from Scott. Worth a quick read. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Making the FDA Great Again
This JAMA Forum discusses staffing and policy changes at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the past year.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm honored to be joining the Governing Council of the National Academy of Medicine, along with four distinguished colleagues and the Academy's new Home Secretary, Dr. Robert L. Phillips. nam.edu/news-and-ins...
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Felicia Krieg @feliciakrieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“Today, lymphoma is no longer the only disease linked to EBV (Epstein-Barr virus). A growing body of evidence suggests the virus may also be a necessary precondition for the development of multiple sclerosis. And EBV is hardly the only virus that leaves a permanent mark.”
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"Unless we act to prevent the dismantling of our vaccine system, people who could be spared the long-term consequences of viral disease will lose out on that possibility." The latest from @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social: wapo.st/3Zmu7pE
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My segment today on CBS ‘Face the Nation’ on the measles epidemic, anti-vaccine policies, and the growing risk from once vanquished infectious diseases.
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Transcript: Scott Gottlieb on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Feb. 8, 2026
The following is the transcript of the interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Feb. 8, 2026. Dr. Gottlieb also sits on the ...
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Charlie Davis @charlespdavis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Former @fda.gov Commissioner Dr. @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social, who sits on the boards of Pfizer and UnitedHealthcare, told @facethenation.bsky.social that the current measles outbreak could be a "long cycle, especially now that this has gotten embedded in political psyche in this country."
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb on measles outbreak — CBS News
Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who sits on the boards of Pfizer and UnitedHealthcare, told
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
My essay in the Sunday Washington Post: “A viral infection can have devastating effects. I experienced this firsthand.” @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/3MhEY0U
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Gift 🎁 link, b/c this is a really great, straightforward op-ed by Scott Gottlieb, who was FDA Commissioner during Trump's first term. Gottlieb developed Hodgkin lymphoma from Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Key excerpts & commentary ⬇️, in case you can't read the whole thing. 🧵1/13 wapo.st/4a3ofYv
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Opinion | A viral infection can have devastating effects. I experienced this firsthand.
The consequences of the anti-vaccine movement reach beyond today’s controversies.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My Op Ed in Today's Washington Post: "The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement. For some people, a viral infection can have devastating long-term effects." wapo.st/4qjFtWk
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The latest from @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social:
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Hank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It's a good and personal piece. Earlier in his adult life, Gottlieb had Hodgkins disease, almost certainly as a result of Epstein-Barr virus infection. (Happily, Hodgkins is usually quite treatable cancer, as it was for him.)
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement: Dr. @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social had cancer caused by EBV, and remind us that viruses can leave life-long harms and risks, and vaccines that prevent infections prevent those, too. @postopinions.bsky.social wapo.st/4qjFtWk
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Opinion | A viral infection can have devastating effects. I experienced this firsthand.
The consequences of the anti-vaccine movement reach beyond today’s controversies.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My Op Ed in Today's Washington Post: "The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement. For some people, a viral infection can have devastating long-term effects." wapo.st/4qjFtWk
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Predictably, anti-vaccine groups are leveraging HHS action to move most pediatric vaccines off the recommended schedule (and conform U.S. guidelines to Denmark) to pressure red state legislatures to eliminate vaccinations as part of school entrance requirements. www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/v...
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With new vaccine schedule secured, RFK Jr. allies head to statehouses
The overhaul of the federal vaccine schedule sent shockwaves through American health care. Now battles over vaccine laws are moving to statehouses across the country.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It appears that the new dietary guidelines stopped short of strengthening the recommendation to reduce alcohol consumption and may have weakened it — a missed public health opportunity that should be revisited as these guidelines are refined and updated. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Rachel Sachs @rachelsachs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is a policy choice. As Dr. Gottlieb recently put the issue on CNBC: if we substantially reduce vaccination rates, "we're going to have to build new pediatric hospitals." www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CJ...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Shifting many pediatric vaccines into the category of shared clinical decision-making means in many red states governors and legislators will be pressured to strip them from school-entry requirements. Vaccination rates could fall sharply with stark regional differences in protection against disease
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Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive
The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Shifting many pediatric vaccines into the category of shared clinical decision-making means in many red states governors and legislators will be pressured to strip them from school-entry requirements. Vaccination rates could fall sharply with stark regional differences in protection against disease
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Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive
The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
My segment on CNBC today Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’ grabien.com/story?id=562...
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Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
‘These aren’t benign diseases’
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
To foster disruptive innovation with the potential to change medical paradigms, NIH policies should channel more funding to unconventional ideas and the early-career investigators who are pursuing them, a theme that I take up in my forthcoming book, Miracle Century www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
To foster disruptive innovation with the potential to change medical paradigms, NIH policies should channel more funding to unconventional ideas and the early-career investigators who are pursuing them, a theme that I take up in my forthcoming book, Miracle Century www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
NBC News: ‘Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop: In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination rate needed for community protection.’ www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
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Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop
In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination rate needed for community protection.
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Reiner Leidl @leidl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Must-read for health care regulators, by former FDA head @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social, pointing out challenges of introducing AI in health care systems -> Approval, benefit assessment and reimbursement regulation need system-specific consideration and design in order to support productivity gains!
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
My article in the current issue of JAMA Health Forum: “How AI Will Help Solve Medicine’s Productivity Challenges.”
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How AI Will Help Solve Medicine’s Productivity Challenges
This JAMA Forum discusses the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to improve productivity in medicine and explores the changes needed in regulation and reimbursement to support the effective im...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
My segment on Face the Nation today on recent changes by CDC’s vaccine advisory committee to the pediatric schedule. www.cbsnews.com/video/scott-...
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Scott Gottlieb says Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose prevents chronic infection
As the CDC vaccine panel voted last week to stop recommending the birth dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who now serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healt...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Dr. Gottlieb: FDA is systemically trying to dismantle components of the vaccine approval process cnb.cx/4pfHbrT with @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social @cnbc.com
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Dr. Gottlieb: FDA is systemically trying to dismantle components of the vaccine approval process
Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss concerns over the FDA's sweeping changes to how the U.S. handles vaccinations, impact on the public trust in vaccines, degradat...
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Lena Sun at the Washington Post reports that this important team at CDC has been rehired.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
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CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"China has no scientific edge over the United States," @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social writes. "China has only a policy edge, which derives from its deliberate economic strategy."
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Opinion | With China undermining U.S. biotech, here’s how the FDA can counter
Lower the costs of development for American scientists, too.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
My segment on @cnbc.com Squawk Box today on the shift in drug discovery to China, the threat that it poses to the U.S. biotechnology ecosystem, and policy steps that the U.S. FDA can take to level the playing field for early drug discovery.
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Dr. Gottlieb on China's biotech strategy: China has become very adept at following U.S. discoveries
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
My hit on @cnbc.com today on the new actions to address autism and the need to exercise more judgment and caution youtu.be/B7t9ryBoBfQ
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Larger trials needed to prove Tylenol, Autism risk correlation: Dr. Scott Gottlieb
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Measles Death Shows How Virus Can Hide in the Brain for Years www.aol.com/articles/mea...
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Measles Death Shows How Virus Can Hide in the Brain for Years
A school-aged child in Los Angeles County has died from a rare but always fatal complication from a measles infection they acquired when they were an infant who was too young to be vaccinated. Expert...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My appearance on #CNBC today about the #CDC’s #ACIP meeting on vaccines, which could bring action by HHS to remove the MMRV vaccine, eliminate the recommendation for Hep B in newborns, and narrow use of Covid vaccines.
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CDC vaccine panel to meet this week: Here's what's at stake
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My CNBC.com segment on implications for pediatric vaccine schedule from recent politics. 2003 saw ~5,000 cases of pertusis, in 2024 there were over 35,000, and for 2025, some models show 70,000+ We risk a return of communicable diseases in children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=00cI...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My CNBC.com segment on implications for pediatric vaccine schedule from recent politics. 2003 saw ~5,000 cases of pertusis, in 2024 there were over 35,000, and for 2025, some models show 70,000+ We risk a return of communicable diseases in children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=00cI...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
My segment from Friday in @cnbc.com on vaccine policy youtu.be/J9FVvNR-n_E
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb reacts to RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I’ll be coming up on @SquawkCNBC at 6:30 to discuss vaccine safety and public health.
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USC Schaeffer @schaeffer.usc.edu · 20/08/2025
📅 Join us Sept. 19 for a conference on #FDA policy reforms aimed at reducing drug development costs and getting valuable new treatments to patients faster. Speakers: @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social, Janet Woodcock, Ken Drazan, Lowell Schiller & more ➡️Registration: schaeffer.usc.edu/event/reform...
Reforming the FDA to Meet Today's Innovation Challenges
Friday, Sept. 19, 9-11 am ET
USC Capital Campus
Hosted by USC Schaeffer
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My editorial in JAMA Health Forum: To support the academic research enterprise, we should pursue regulatory reforms that enable institutions to advance more of their discoveries to patients and, in doing so, capture more economic value of innovations they achieve jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Securing America’s Pharmaceutical Innovation Edge
This JAMA Forum discusses challenges to the US’s standing as a global leader in biomedical innovation from China, in the context of recent reductions in funding for biomedical research by the federal ...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
CSL, a major manufacturer of flu vaccine, is spinning off its entire vaccine unit and cutting up to 15% of its staff. Influenza vaccine uptake is off by about 10% www.wsj.com/business/csl...
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CSL to Spin Off Seqirus, Cut Up to 15% of Staff in Sweeping Restructure
Australia-listed CSL, which has a significant portion of its business in the U.S., announced its intention to simplify its operating structure amid a challenging and volatile environment.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
From Pink Sheet on continued departures from FDA’s biologics division and challenges backfilling openings. FDA biologics center reported 106 departures from Jan. 1 to June 30. These numbers don’t include the 100-150 who were part of the reduction-in-force insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
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US FDA’s Biologics Center Departures Grew Before More Than 100 RIFs Exited
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research saw departures far outnumber new hires in the second and third quarters of FY 2025, before more than 100 people left July 14 after the reduction-in-for...
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
From Pink Sheet on continued departures from FDA’s biologics division and challenges backfilling openings. FDA biologics center reported 106 departures from Jan. 1 to June 30. These numbers don’t include the 100-150 who were part of the reduction-in-force insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
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US FDA’s Biologics Center Departures Grew Before More Than 100 RIFs Exited
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research saw departures far outnumber new hires in the second and third quarters of FY 2025, before more than 100 people left July 14 after the reduction-in-for...
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