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CHMP Chair Abadie Resigns Suddenly

April 9, 2012
The chair of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has resigned, effective immediately. Tomas Salmonson, CHMP’s vice-chair, will step in as acting head of Europe’s committee for approving new drugs, according to media reports. Eric Abadie had been chair of CHMP since 2007 and is also the scientific adviser to the director general of French regulatory agency Afssaps.
Washington Drug Letter