UConn Medical School's New Dean Wants to Bring More Ideas to Market As a former chief scientist and acting commissioner of the federal Food and Drug Administration, Frank M. Torti saw firsthand how promising discoveries of new drugs and treatments languished in the lab when teaching hospitals didn't understand how to get them approved and into the marketplace. Dr. Torti will bring that insider knowledge, along with decades of experience as a prominent cancer researcher, to the University of Connecticut when he begins hi...