Sara Brenner, a Food and Drug Administration official in the agency’s medical device division, has been named the FDA’s acting commissioner, according to an update made online to the regulator’s leadership biography page.
The FDA declined to comment, citing a communications pause by the HHS.
Brenner will lead the agency until a permanent commissioner is installed. President Donald Trump has nominated Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary as FDA commissioner, but he has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. Confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, as Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, would be Makary’s boss, are scheduled for Jan. 29 and Jan. 30…
