Ousted Vaccine Regulator Vinay Prasad to Return to FDA

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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/