Isaac Setton is a corporate regulatory affairs advisor for the corporate legal department at Teva in Israel, following his retirement in 2005. Mr Setton, who joined Teva in 1969, was appointed head of regulatory affairs in 1971, and represented the company as a member of the Professional Committee of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. He was editor-in-chief of the Israel Drug Compendium, a book published by the association to provide prescribing information on medicinal products manufactured in Israel, for its three editions between 1973 and 1995. Mr Setton also co-authored the Israel section in “International Clinical Trials, A Guidebook and Compendium of National Drug Laws” (Brunier D and Nahler G, eds, Interpharm Press, 1996).