A believer in biotech and big data: How Ned Sharpless vaulted to the top of the FDA-statnews: Almost
immediately after beginning his Bethesda, Md., day job as the nation’s top
cancer researcher, Ned Sharpless built a roughly 7-mile detour into his weekly
routine: a sojourn to the Food and Drug Administration campus for a pickup
basketball game. Whether or not the
networking was intentional, Sharpless will soon be spending far more time with
the FDA oncologists who once broke his finger. When Scott Gottlieb steps down
after a nearly two-year tenure next month, Sharpless will take the helm of that
agency, at least in the short term.
