Vinay Prasad, a critic of the Food and Drug Administration, has been tapped as the agency’s top regulator of vaccines, gene therapies and the blood supply. Prasad, a University of California at San Francisco professor and epidemiologist,

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has named Vinay Prasad, an oncologist who has previously criticized FDA leadership and COVID-19 mandates, as the director of its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,

(Reuters) -The US Food and Drug Administration has named Vinay Prasad, an oncologist who has previously criticized COVID-19 restrictions, as the director of its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, an internal email seen by Reuters said on Tuesday. The US FDA's commissioner, Marty Makary, made the announcement in an email to staff.