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FDA’s Lola Fashoyin-Aje: Stop getting stuck on the “risks” of diversity in drug development, it’s time to fix disparities in access
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FDA’s Lola Fashoyin-Aje: Stop getting stuck on the “risks” of diversity in drug development, it’s time to fix disparities in access

There’s a cultural perception in drug development that enrolling a diverse, heterogeneous patient cohort can be “risky” for detecting drug effects—a perception that needs to go away, said Lola Fashoyin-Aje, associate director of the Science & Policy Program to Address Disparities at the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and a deputy division director in the agency’s Office of Oncologic Diseases.