FDA Names New Top Vaccine Official After Resignation of Peter Marks

Dr. Vinay Prasad will serve as head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

The Food and Drug Administrationโ€™s (FDA) new top vaccine official is a university professor who has expressed criticism of how the agency handled COVID-19 vaccines.

Dr. Vinay Prasad will head the FDAโ€™s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said on May 6.

Doctors with Sensible Medicine, a website with which Prasad was involved, said on Tuesday that Prasad was leaving the site to become the director of the CBER.

Prasad did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.

Prasad has frequently criticized in recent years the decisions FDA officials made, including the promotion of COVID-19 vaccines without clinical trial data, particularly for people who had previously been infected with COVID-19. He wrote in a 2024 review that there was โ€œmisplaced utilization, contradictory messaging, and poor deployment in those who would benefit mostโ€”the elderly and high-riskโ€”alongside unrealistic messaging, exaggeration, and coercion in those who benefit leastโ€”young, healthy Americans.โ€

Prasad, an epidemiology and biostatistics professor at the University of Californiaโ€“San Francisco, was also one of the first outside experts to raise concerns about heart inflammation that was appearing in young people who received the shots.

โ€œWith 500+ peer-reviewed publications and two books, Dr. Prasad brings the kind of scientific rigor, independence, and transparency we need at CBERโ€”a significant step forward,โ€ Makary said in a post on social media platform X.

The CBER regulates vaccines and other biological products. The agencyโ€™s website still lists Dr. Peter Marks as its director.

Marks resigned in April over disagreements with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In his resignation letter, Marks said he was willing to work to address Kennedyโ€™s concerns with vaccine safety and transparency, but alleged that he later realized Kennedy โ€œwishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.โ€

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDAโ€™s parent agency, told news outlets at the time that โ€œif Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at [the] FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy.โ€

Byย Zachary Stieber

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