Timothy R. Franson, MD
Dr. Timothy R. Franson is a Principal with Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting where he leads the firm’s life sciences regulatory consulting practice. He has extensive clinical and regulatory experience in all pre- and post-approval phases of pharmaceutical development relating to interactions with the FDA for policy and product issues, as well as with global regulators. He also serves as the past president of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention and on the Executive Committee of its Board of Trustees.
Dr. Franson was the founder and president of Franson PharmAdvisors LLC, a clinical and regulatory pharmaceutical development consulting firm that merged with FaegreBD Consulting. He then served as Chief Medical Officer for YourEncore. Prior to this, Dr. Franson was Vice President of Global Regulatory Affairs at Lilly Research Laboratories (Eli Lilly and Company) after serving as their Vice President of Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs-U.S.
Dr. Franson was co-chair of the joint FDA-industry working group addressing clinical aspects of the FDA Modernization Act of 1997, including the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) renewal. He also co-chaired an FDA-industry safety interventions working group, was a member of the AAMC-PhRMA Clinical Trials Forum and of the Regulatory Advisory Board for the Centre for Medicines Research International. He recently served on the NIH-NCATS Treatment of Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) review panel.
Dr. Franson has authored more than 50 articles in the fields of infectious disease, epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, and antibiotic utilization, as well as four book chapters relating to innovation policy topics. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors for Myrexis (formerly Myriad) Pharmaceuticals from 2010 to 2013.
Dr. Franson received his BS in Pharmacy from Drake University, his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Internal Medicine training from the University of Iowa, and completed a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
