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FDA official returns to agency after Loomer-led ouster
By Betsy Klein, Meg Tirrell, Sarah Owermohle, Adam Cancryn, CNN
Updated:
1:17 PM EDT, Sat August 9, 2025
Source: CNN
Dr. Vinay Prasad, a controversial critic of the US Food and Drug
Administration who took a top role at the regulatory agency in May, has
returned to his job weeks after resigning amid pressure from the White
House and right-wing activist Laura Loomer.
“At the FDA’s request, Dr. Vinay Prasad is resuming leadership of
the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,” said Health and
Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon in a statement to CNN on
Saturday.
Nixon did not respond to CNN’s inquiry about whether Prasad will also
return to his role as FDA chief medical and scientific officer.
In late July, Prasad, a hematologist oncologist, said he was resigning
because he “did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the
FDA” and had “decided to return to California and spend more time
with his family.”
Prasad’s departure came amid fresh pressure from the White House for
him to resign, according to a person familiar with the matter who was
granted anonymity to describe the internal dynamics, and followed days
of criticism from Loomer, who has extraordinary access to President
Donald Trump.
Loomer had taken shots at Prasad on her website and on social media,
attacking him publicly for days as a “progressive leftist saboteur”
who was “undermining President Trump’s FDA.”
Loomer focused on Prasad’s previous social media posts and podcast
episodes, where she said he aligned himself politically with liberal
politicians and expressed “disdain” for Trump. Her posts were
followed by others from figures including former US Sen. Rick Santorum,
who called Prasad “the man destroying @POTUS legacy for helping
patients,” and a headlined, “Vinay Prasad Is a Bernie Sanders
Acolyte in MAHA Drag.”
Prasad had been a vocal critic of some of the agency’s drug
approvals, as well as the government’s response and vaccine policies
during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Loomer, reacting to the news of Prasad’s return in a , called it an
“egregious personnel decision” and said she planned to “(ramp) up
my exposes of officials within HHS and FDA” in the coming weeks.
Prasad also drew criticism from former officials and vaccine experts
after internal memos from May revealed that he on recommendations for
two new versions of Covid-19 vaccines. The then-CBER director rebuked
recommendations for broad use of the shots; the FDA eventually approved
the vaccines for use in older and immunocompromised people but did not
advise them for younger Americans who don’t have underlying
conditions.
CNN’s Meg Tirrell, Sarah Owermohle, and Adam Cancryn contributed to
this report.
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