FDA names McLellan Science Board chair
On January 1, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) named Mark McLellan, vice president for research and dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Utah State University, the 2017 chair of the FDA Science Board.
On January 1, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) named Mark McLellan, CFS, vice president for research and dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Utah State University, the 2017 chair of the FDA Science Board. McLellan is a Certified Food Scientist, past president of the Institute of Food Technologists, in addition to being an IFT member and Fellow.
Since 2014, McLellan has served on the FDA Science Board as an expert in the areas of food science, education, and research administration. Appointed last spring, McLellan will continue serving as the inaugural chair of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Science Advisory Council. McLellan is the first to serve on both councils simultaneously.
McLellan has been an active agricultural scientist, first serving as university dean and director of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and later as director of the Institute of Food Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and professor of food science at Cornell University.
As chair of the Science Board, McLellan will head a team of 21 experts, most of whom are medical doctors and human health researchers in fields relevant to FDA-regulated products such as pharmacology, food science, clinical medicine and research, and toxicology. This team meets several times a year to discuss complex scientific and technical issues and provide advice to the commissioner of the FDA.