Top USFDA vaccine official Vinay Prasad exits agency
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Dr Vinay Prasad. the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) top official, has left the agency just three months after taking over as Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), a government spokesperson said.
A former FDA critic and a fierce critic of US COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates, Prasad was appointed in May 2025.
"Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family," a spokesperson from the Department of Health and Human Services told Reuters.
Endpoints News first reported Prasad's departure.
His exit comes after a number of unusual regulatory actions, including those taken recently by the agency on Sarepta Therapeutics' gene therapy, Elevidys.
"Unprecedentedly, there were multiple press leaks from the FDA, negatively impacting (its) credibility," said BMO Capital Markets analyst, Koustas Billouri.
During Prasad's short stint, the U.S. FDA limited the use of COVID-19 vaccines and declined to approve therapies from Replimmune and Capricor Therapeutics.
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