The US Food and Drug Administration has reorganised its information technology work into a new office and appointed British educated Vid Desai to lead it. The new Office of Digital Transformation will combine all of the functions of the agency’s current IT, data management, and cybersecurity functions in a single unit, reporting directly to the FDA commissioner. It is part of a modernisation drive started in 2019 to operate more efficiently and increase the use of new technologies in the review of medicines and the monitoring food safety.
