Marty Makary is one step closer to becoming the head of the Food and Drug Administration. On March 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Committee voted Thursday to advance Marty Makary’s nomination as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He will likely be confirmed in the full Senate. Makary, a prominent surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University,

If confirmed, Makary would run one of the nation's leading health agencies, overseeing the regulation of food and drugs.