FDA Commissioner’s Fellowship Program

Program Synopsis

The Commissioner's Fellowship Program is one of a number of training opportunities available to those interested in acquiring experience in FDA regulatory science.

The objective of the Commissioner's Fellowship Program is to train a cadre of high accomplished scientists intensively in FDA regulatory science across devices, drugs, biologics, foods, and cosmetics. In addition to classes in each FDA product area, fellows will receive instruction in FDA law, policy and international activities, federal budget process, networking and leadership skills, communication with the public and press, biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trial design, risk assessment and risk management, and extensive case-based learning classes. In parallel with this didactic training, the fellows, with the guidance of their senior scientist preceptor, will engage in a carefully designed and articulated FDA regulatory science project. This experience can be in a wet lab, with a clinical review or evaluation team, in biostatistics, informatics, epidemiology, risk analysis or another aspect of FDA science.

It is expected that when they have completed their fellowship some fellows will remain at FDA. Others may seek jobs in industry or academia where the knowledge and perspective they gained at FDA will prove invaluable.

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