A new chairman of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been announced. Professor Gordon Duff will take his new position from 1 January 2013. He will take over from Sir Alasdair Breckenridge. Sir Alan Langlands, Deborah Oakley and Martin Hindle join the MHRA Board with immediate effect, and Professor Vincent Lawton and Professor Barrington Furr remain.