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Published online 16 March 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/458271a
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Incoming chief to tackle woes of US food and drug agency
Obama nominates Margaret 'Peggy' Hamburg as FDA chief.
Physician Margaret Hamburg, once the youngest-ever health commissioner for New York City, was nominated on 14 March by President Barack Obama to head the beleaguered US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). If confirmed by the Senate, she would bring to the commissioner's job a background of public-health experience that runs from working at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and from bioterrorism planning to pandemic-flu preparation and tuberculosis control.
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