Ousted Vaccine Regulator Vinay Prasad to Return to FDA

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Source: msn/Bloomberg

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(Bloomberg) -- Vinay Prasad, who was recently ousted as the top vaccine and gene therapy regulator at the US Food and Drug Administration, is returning to his role, the Department of Health and Human Services said Saturday.

Prasad is returning at the FDA’s request, HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a written statement. “Neither the White House nor HHS will allow the fake news media to distract from the critical work the FDA is carrying out under the Trump administration,” Nixon said. Prasad will resume leadership of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Nixon said. It’s unclear whether he will also retake two other roles he held at the agency as chief science officer and chief medical officer.

Prasad abruptly departed the agency on July 29 after a conservative backlash in part over his handling of safety issues with Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.’s gene therapy. Laura Loomer, an ally of Donald Trump, had said he was not aligned with the president’s agenda and has aggressively lobbied against his return. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told reporters on Monday that he was trying to persuade Prasad to return to the agency.

Though Prasad was in his role for less than three months before his ouster, he managed to stir controversy at the agency. He demanded more studies of Covid vaccines, overruled his own scientific review staff and took a confrontational approach that gave critics fodder to claim he could stymie scientific innovation.

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[lostincalifornia]

1. The gang who couldn't shoot straight. Here is Stat's reporting of this:

"Vinay Prasad returns to the FDA, weeks after his ouster

WASHINGTON — Vinay Prasad is returning to the Food and Drug Administration to resume his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy, and blood product regulation.

“At the FDA’s request, Dr. Vinay Prasad is resuming leadership of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,” Health and Human Services spokesman Andrew Nixon told STAT on Saturday.

It is not clear whether Prasad will also still serve as the FDA’s chief medical and scientific officer. He left the agency a mere two weeks ago, amid escalating tensions related to a gene therapy product for Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy made by Sarepta Therapeutics and a campaign launched by right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, in which she criticized Prasad’s previous posts describing himself as liberal.

The backlash culminated in Prasad’s ouster at the end of July, which CNN reported came directly from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who apparently wanted to protect President Trump from having to answer for Prasad’s prior political statements. The move, CNN reported, went directly against health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA commissioner Marty Makary’s wishes."


https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/vinay-prasad-returns-to-the-fda-weeks-after-his-ouster/

[moniss]

2. Those last three words about him and his capabilities are

likely the key reason he was brought back. Stymie, scientific, innovation.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Well, we heard it from Nixon, so it must be true. nt