F.D.A. Official Under Bush Is Trump’s Choice to Lead Agency - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/health/fda-scott-gottlieb.html
President Trump said Friday that he intended to nominate Scott Gottlieb, a partner at a venture capital fund with longstanding ties to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, to lead the Food and Drug Administration.
[…]
Mr. Trump has made no secret about his desire to overhaul the F.D.A., telling a group of pharmaceutical executives in January that he planned to slash regulations and speed up drug approvals at the agency.
[…]
Indeed, Dr. Gottlieb was the clear choice of the pharmaceutical industry — when the Wall Street firm Mizuho Securities surveyed 53 drug companies in February, nearly three-quarters said they preferred him.