Changing of Federal Agency Directors.

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" Leaders of these agencies have in the past often straddled administrations,

but the Obama administration is expected to make a clean sweep in part

because of repeated claims that the Bush administration allowed politics to

play

an unusually forceful role in science policy. "

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worthy to share.

Sharon

New York Times By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: December 16, 2008

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. C. von Eschenbach said

that he would resign on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, part of a parade of

expected departures at the nation’s crucial public health agencies.

Leaders of these agencies have in the past often straddled administrations,

but the Obama administration is expected to make a clean sweep in part

because of repeated claims that the Bush administration allowed politics to

play an

unusually forceful role in science policy.

The administration’s choices for each slot will signal how it plans to deal

with such controversial issues as stem cell policy, the safety of imported

drugs and foods, and whether huge investments in bioterrorism prevention will

continue.

Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, the director of the National Institutes of Health,

has already left his post. Dr. Gerberding, director of the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in a November e-mail that she expects to

leave “after the administration changes.†And Dr. E. Niederhuber,

director of the National Cancer Institute, is also expected to surrender his

leadership job, although he may remain at the institute.

By far the most difficult of these transitions will be at the F.D.A.

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