And while the FDA usually follows the advice of advisory committees, it's not always a slam-dunk.
Mrs Lederer served on a number of advisory committees under the administrations of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
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He has served on state and national advisory committees pertaining to disabilities, mostly focused on employment and transportation.
The analysts looked at product-specific decisions made by advisory committees from 2007 through 2010, a total of 120 votes.
For years, he has toiled at the FDA's offices, presenting data to advisory committees but not putting his face before the public.
Committee Chair Dolores Kelly said withdrawing funding for the advisory committees would have a significant impact on the value the areas provide.
Another problem is that the FDA is much less likely to follow the whims of its advisory committees than many investors seem to think.
In a final review, both applications will be considered by the FDA, which usually -- but not always -- follows the recommendations of its advisory committees.
Then there are various advisory committees, representing racial groups or state governments or business associations, all of which demand information from Mr Prewitt's hard-pressed statisticians all the time.
So Britain is wise to include public-interest groups and consumer representatives on the advisory committees that are being set up to look at the social and ethical aspects of biotechnology.
Although Mr Volcker resumed his banking career on Wall Street after his government service, he continued to serve on various advisory committees, including the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission.
Professor Roy Harrison, a member of two UK government advisory committees on air pollution, said US research had provided strong evidence that fine particles contained in emissions from vehicles and industry caused cancer.
Senior Yale lecturers like Yale's diplomat-in-residence and eminent international security studies scholar Charles Hill, and Yale's Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and Holocaust survivor Geoffrey Hartman, served on YIISA's faculty advisory committees and participated in its activities.
The full process and resulting applicant guidebook has taken about five years to develop and includes various advisory committees to help represent third-party interests, such as the the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which advises ICANN on international and local laws.
We were aware that Dr. Nissen had performed an update to the meta-analysis of rosiglitazone trials that he published in 2007, and the FDA considered it important to provide Dr. Nissen an opportunity to present these new data to the advisory committees.
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Although FDA strives to have broad representation of appropriate medical and scientific specialties on its advisory committees, optimal representation is often difficult to achieve given the strict conflict-of-interest regulations that apply, as well as calendar conflicts, which may limit the availability of experts for the selected meeting dates.
Overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the study was given to the National Institute of Child Health and Development, with input from a number of advisory and oversight committees, the Director of the NIH, and with the involvement of other government agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency).
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And it picked committees at random, missing the advisory committee for cancer drugs, where a lot of controversies happen.
Ms Jarbawi has served the community as board member of several scientific and educational committees (GOs, NGOs and Private sector) at executive, advisory, and policy making level.
The deputies considered nominees for the Governance Coordinating Committee, worked to establish two Interagency Policy Committees, and solidified the connection with the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel.
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