Warren Kibbe, director of the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, is leaving NCI in mid-August to take a new position as chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Duke University School of Medicine, and chief data officer for the Duke Cancer Institute.
Richard Pazdur, FDA’s top oncologist who last week received a battlefield promotion to the role of director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, is described as a stabilizing figure respected by major patient groups, oncology professional societies, and the industry.
