Califf to head new clinical research foundation

Former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf will be chair of the newly created People-Centered Research Foundation (PCRF). The group was formed by investigators from the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet), which is operated by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a publicly funded comparative effectiveness research organization.

In January, Califf resigned as FDA commissioner (see BioCentury Extra, Jan. 20)...