USFDA picks oncologist Vinay Prasad as top vaccine official
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Dr Vinay Prasad, an oncologist and outspoken critic of the FDA leadership and COVID-19 mandates has been named as the new director of U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
In his new role, Dr Prasad will oversee the regulation of complex and high-cost biologic products—including vaccines, gene therapies, and the blood supply. He succeeds Peter Marks, who oversaw the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine approvals and exited the post in March.
Prasad could raise the bar for companies to get approval for new drugs, including what are known as Accelerated Approvals for new potential treatments of serious conditions for which there is no standard alternative, Jefferies analyst Andrew Tsai wrote in a research note.
"We suspect he will require sponsors to produce more supporting clinical evidence (taking less 'shortcuts')," Tsai wrote.
In a recent blog post on the Substack platform, Prasad said the CDC "should ABSOLUTELY remove COVID-19 from the Childhood Immunization schedule. If it stays, it shows the United States is a corrupt country," citing the lack of randomized trial evidence for use of the vaccines in children.
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