Jennifer Vanderbes — whose script about FDA medical reviewer Frances Kelsey was on the Black List-inspired Athena List of unproduced screenplays about women leaders — will receive $20,000 to help ...
In 1960, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey faced a tough choice between two job offers at different federal agencies in the Washington area. She chose the Food and Drug Administration, she later said, because ...
Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, whose tireless efforts uncovered a link between the drug thalidomide and severe birth defects, has died at age 101. In 1960, Kelsey was the new medical officer at the Food ...
Unable to come up with an appropriate subject for a master’s thesis, a graduate student back in the 1980s was assigned the topic, “The FDA New Drug Approval Process.” How to breathe life into such a ...
Unless you are of “a certain age”, the name Frances Oldham Kelsey might not ring a bell. Yet, there is a strong South Dakota connection to her, along with a street in Sioux Falls that bears her name, ...
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