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Mr. Hutt former Chief Counsel for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became a director in May of 2005. Mr. Hutt is currently Senior Counsel to the Washington D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling specializing in food and drug law and trade association law. Since 1994 he has taught a course on food and drug law at Harvard Law School and taught the same course at Stanford Law School in 1998. He is also a co-author of Food and Drug Law: Cases and Materials. Mr. Hutt serves on a wide variety of academic and advisory boards including the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Panel on the Administrative Restructuring of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additionally he serves as Legal Counsel to the Society of Risk Analysis as well as the American College of Toxicology. Formerly he has served on the IOM Executive Committee Advisory Committee to the Director of the NIH the NAS Committee on Research Training in the Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences and the National Committee to Review Current Procedures for Approval of New Drugs for Cancer and AIDS established by the President's Cancer Panel of the National Cancer Institute at the request of President George Bush. Mr. Hutt received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and law degrees from Harvard University and New York University. | 