Mark McLaughlin—a researcher with the West Virginia University Cancer Institute and Modulation Therapeutics Inc.—and his colleagues have received FDA approval to begin human trials of a new drug called MTI-201, which treats uveal melanoma after the cancer has traveled to another part of the body.
Rick Pazdur, MD, the newly appointed director for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA, has been described as “greyhound thin” as a result of his dedication to cycling and lifting weights in the gym each day and, for a long time, a vegetarian diet. I first met him when he was the director of the Office of Oncology Drug Products (ODP) within CDER, in 2009.
