Scott Gottlieb seems like the pharmaceutical industry's idea of a dream FDA Commissioner, with pharma ties and an ideological bent toward deregulation.

But he has also been the only member of the Trump administration to follow through on the president's fiery rhetoric about rising drug prices. Pharma claims to like the free market. But in the year ahead, Gottlieb is set to prove how the free market can cut both ways for drugmakers.

Gottlieb is a physician who became the FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs in 2005. After leaving the agency in 2007, he served on pharma boards, worked in venture capital and was a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

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