The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Vinay Prasad, has left the agency after just three months as Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, a government spokesperson said.

Vinay Prasad, a top regulator at the US Food and Drug Administration, has left the agency after a controversy over his handling of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.’s gene therapy. “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,