{"id":33505,"date":"2025-07-30T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33505\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:55:08","slug":"u-s-fdas-chief-medical-and-science-officer-prasad-departs-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33505\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. FDA’s chief medical and science officer Prasad departs agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May 2025, the FDA\u00a0named\u00a0Prasad, an oncologist who previously criticized FDA leadership and COVID-19 mandates, as the director of its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.<\/p>\n

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Vinay\u00a0Prasad, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s chief medical and science officer, has left the health regulator,\u00a0the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, said on Tuesday,\u00a0confirming an earlier news report.<\/p>\n

“Dr.\u00a0Prasad\u00a0did 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,” an HHS spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n

“We thank him for his service and the many important reforms he was able to achieve in his time at FDA.”<\/p>\n

STAT News first reported about\u00a0Prasad’s departure, saying it came after a number of controversial decisions by the FDA regarding a gene therapy drug for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy manufactured by Sarepta Therapeutics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The agency first\u00a0halted shipments\u00a0of the drug, called Elevidys, after the deaths of some recipients but rescinded the suspension on Monday.<\/p>\n

In June, STAT News reported that\u00a0Prasad\u00a0was\u00a0named\u00a0as the health regulator’s chief medical and science officer, citing an internal memo.<\/p>\n

In May, the FDA\u00a0named\u00a0Prasad, an oncologist who previously criticized FDA leadership and COVID-19 mandates, as the director of its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In May 2025, the FDA\u00a0named\u00a0Prasad, an oncologist who previously criticized FDA leadership and COVID-19 mandates, as the director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[161,49,48,84,1235,392,4358],"class_list":["post-33505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-health-care-industry","tag-healthcare","tag-sarepta-therapeutics-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}