BMO Capital Markets pointed to FDA leadership, and CBER Director Vinay Prasad in particular, as potential factors in the ...

MAGA supporters such as far-right political activist Laura Loomer have dubbed his appointment "baffling" and a "betrayal of the voters who elected Trump".

The new memos from the Food and Drug Administration show how the agency’s vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, personally intervened to place restrictions on COVID shots from vaccine makers Novavax and ...

Vinay Prasad overruled other reviewers for a third time in recent months in clearing only narrow use of Moderna's vaccine in young children.

Prasad was hired to lead the FDA's vaccine center in May, after the previous director, Dr. Peter Marks, was forced to resign over disagreements with Kennedy. Prasad is an academic researcher ...

Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids.Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach to combatting ...

The new FDA commissioner and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) director laid out their vision for the agency in a JAMA Viewpoint. Marty Makary, MD, MPH, and Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH ...

Vinay Prasad has been named the FDA’s chief medical and scientific officer, in addition to leading CBER. Courtesy FDA. By Lizzy Lawrence. June 18, 2025. FDA Reporter Lizzy Lawrence ...

The leader of the U.S. FDA's division that oversees vaccines, Vinay Prasad, overruled the recommendations of his agency's staff by limiting broader use of two COVID-19 vaccines.

Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, the newly appointed Director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), will deliver the keynote address.

Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach to combatting ...