Vinay Prasad
Vinay Prasad | |
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| Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research | |
| Assumed office May 6, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Peter Marks |
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| Education | Michigan 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).