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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forcing Peter Marks out of the Food and Drug Administration has blown a hole in the agency’s leadership ranks and threatens to unmoor the oversight of drugs and vaccines from bed...
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Shares of U.S. drugmakers fell before the bell on Monday after reports that the Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official had been forced to resign, the most high-profile exit at the regula...
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The pharma industry, Wall Street and former government officials on Monday decried the forced resignation of FDA vaccine regulator Dr. Peter Marks, openly worrying that his exit portends an antiscience shift at the agency.
Marks offered his resignation while citing Kennedy’s “misinformation and lies” and an “unprecedented assault on scientific truth” impacting public health.
Vaccine makers were hit particularly hard yesterday, as Marks’ resignation letter alluded to disagreements with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines. Moderna’s stock dropped 9%, while Vaxcyte’s plummeted 46% (though shares of Vaxcyte were also affected by disappointing results of a vaccine candidate.)
It's not yet been a week since Marty Makary, M.D., was confirmed to lead the FDA as its commissioner. | Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., a target for RFK Jr. and allies, last week turned in his resignation as director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
Biotech stocks took a hit after the sudden resignation of Dr. Peter Marks, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
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As the FDA wavers from cuts, changes and departures under the second Trump administration, another vital figure of the agency is heading for the exit. | In resigning as director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration, wrote in a letter that he was resigning from his position.
Steele, who joined the FDA in 2022, was previously senior adviser at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which regulates biological and related products including blood, vaccines, allergenics, tissues, and cellular and gene therapies.
The stock market—and biotech insiders—reacted negatively to the allegedly forced resignation of CBER Director Peter Marks, who said RFK Jr. does not seek “truth and transparency” but rather “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.