WASHINGTON, D.C. — Georgetown University today announces a partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a first of its kind Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI). The Center is supported by an FDA investment with an initial $1 million grant, which is potentially part of a three-year funding program for improving drug development and manufacturing.
Experts in science, medicine and law at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and Georgetown University Law Center will lead the CERSI. Ira Shoulson, M.D., professor of neurology and director of GUMC’s Program for Regulatory Science and Medicine, is principal investigator of the CERSI. Co-principal investigators include Kenneth L. Dretchen, Ph.D., professor and chairman of pharmacology and physiology at GUMC, and Lawrence Gostin, the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Law Center….
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/gumc-fag102611.php
