Supervisory physician
US Food and Drug Administration
Markham C. Luke, MD, PhD is the Director of the Division of Therapeutic Performance (DTP) in the Office of Research and Standards, Office of Generic Drugs. DTP is responsible for facilitating pre-application development of generic drugs by conducting and promoting regulatory science research to establish standards to ensure therapeutic equivalence of new generic drug products. Markham has research interests in dermatopharmacology, clinical pharmacology, clinical study design and endpoints assessment (including patient-reported outcomes) for medical, surgical, and aesthetic products and serves as consultant dermatologist to various parts of FDA.