Popular Episode - Reimagining FDA: Steve Usdin on Designing the Drug Regulator of the Future

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If you could redesign FDA from the ground up, what would it look like? That’s the fundamental question underlying the 2025 BioCentury Back to School essay, authored by BioCentury Washington Editor Steve Usdin, who has been a leading voice on regulation and policy for over two decades. The topic is especially meaningful in this era of FDA turmoil, when regulatory risk has piled on top of the market pullback, making biotech appear an unusually hazardous domain for investors. But while the current landscape has underscored the need, FDA reform has been on the table long before this administration came into power. On this edition of The BioCentury Show, Usdin and Editor in Chief Simone Fishburn discuss the key arguments, and some specific concepts, within Back To School, which reimagines the U.S. drugs regulator.

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00:00 - Introduction
02:39 - Restructuring FDA
18:08 - A Learning Regulatory Agency
27:54 - Global View
31:09 - Talent
32:59 - User Fees