FDA Pleased Cures Draft Lifts Hiring Caps For Senior Scientists, Urges More Reforms

FDA officials told lawmakers that the updated Cures bill's provisions to lift hiring caps and raise salary caps would help them attract senior biomedical researchers, and agreed that Congress could do even more by cutting bureaucratic red tape in the hiring process and allowing new employees to put stock holdings in blind trusts. Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) said at a House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee meeting last Thursday (April 30) that he is working on language that would allow...