Many others are also leaving and the FDA post is a tough one to fill after the transitions and grilling from the public and Congress over the last year. I might think the next Commish might even carry a Blackberry, maybe? I say this in view of the lack of technology in many area of the FDA that has been in the press the last year. In recent news though, they are not alone, looks like the SEC is next up on the list. BD 
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, said Tuesday that he would resign on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, part of a parade of expected departures at the nation’s crucial public health agencies.
Leaders of these agencies have sometimes straddled administrations, but the Obama administration is expected to make a clean sweep in part because of repeated assertions that the Bush administration allowed politics to play an unusually forceful role in science policy, and because each of the current leaders has fierce critics on Capitol Hill and in the public health community.
Dr. Elias Zerhouni has already left his post as director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in a November e-mail message to her staff that she expects to leave “after the administration changes.” And Dr. John E. Niederhuber, director of the National Cancer Institute, is expected to surrender his leadership job, although he may remain at the institute.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/health/17FDA.html?_r=1&ref=us
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