Dr. Vinay Prasad will depart at the end of April, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said.
FILE – The Food and Drug Administration seal is seen at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s embattled vaccine chief, Dr.
Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency — the ‘Come and take it’: Massachusetts governor challenges RFK Jr.’s request for Dunkin’, Starbucks ingredientsEvidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the news to FDA staff in an email late Friday, saying Prasad would depart at the end of April. Makary said Prasad would return to his academic job at the University of California, San Francisco. Prasad’s latest ouster follows a string of high-profile controversies involving the FDA’s review of vaccines, gene therapies and biotech drugs in which companies have criticized the agency for reversing itself, in some cases calling for new trials of products previously greenlighted by regulators. In July, Prasad was briefly forced from his job after running afoul of biotech executives, patient groups and conservative allies of President Donald Trump. He was reinstated less than two weeks later with the backing of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Makary.for drug reviews, Prasad has taken a seemingly contradictory approach to regulation since arriving at the FDA last May. On repeated occasions, Prasad has joined Makary in announcing steps to make FDA drug reviews faster and easier for companies. But he also has imposed new warnings and study requirements for some biotech drugs and vaccines, particularly COVID shots that have long been a target for Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist before joining the Trump administration. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Girl Scouts San Diego sues snack food giant, alleges cookie contract breach cost council $1.1 millionLemon Grove council members walk out over disagreements on tenants’ rights ordinanceAfter second trial, jury convicts San Diego County deputy who seriously injured restrained inmateSmall San Diego taco chain finalizes plans to franchise across the countrySafari Park visitors get first look at Elephant Valley: ‘This is history’
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