Marty Makary
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939 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 May
Marty Makary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, we have to move with the times.
And so we have created a powerful AI tool that our scientific reviewers can use to
to review applications, to organize the applications, to provide supporting studies that they can review in depth.
The reviewers here tried an AI tool in a pilot program a few weeks after I came into office.
We call the program ELSA.
And they said, gosh, these applications that can be 100,000 pages plus are so much better organized with this AI tool.
We found the functions that the scientists need to do, for example, ensuring proper formatting of all the tables in applications.
And so we create a button for that.
It is a check to make sure the formatting meets our standards.
All this would have been done manually.
And so after a successful pilot, I told my team, let's go ahead and make this tool available to all scientists.
It's optional.
They don't have to use it.
But let's make it available by June 30th.
Well, we got it available agency-wide, ahead of schedule, and under budget.
And thousands of our scientific reviewers use it every day, totally on their own volition, because we track the number of unique users at the FDAs.
So it's very popular.
I do think it is a healthy goal for the FDA to have more approvals each year.
Now, we want approvals that are meaningful, that are supported by data, and that are powerful things.
We're really interested in meaningful treatments and cures.
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