Vinay Prasad

Vinay Prasad
Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Assumed office
May 6, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byPeter Marks
Personal details
EducationMichigan State University (BA)
University of Chicago (MD)
Johns Hopkins University (MPH)

Vinayak Kashyap "Vinay" Prasad is an American hematologist-oncologist and health researcher who has served as the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), since May 2025. He was a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is the author of the books Ending Medical Reversal (2015) and Malignant (2020).