FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced that Dr. George Tidmarsh, a cancer and pediatric specialist, will direct the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, which regulates the safety and effectiveness of all U.S. drugs.

Marty Makary, commissioner of the FDA, is naming George Tidmarsh director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

George Tidmarsh, a Stanford University physician who founded Horizon Pharma and later ran La Jolla Pharma, was named head of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.