Rare disease and gene therapy stocks, battered in recent months by clinical and commercial setbacks, will likely benefit from the sudden departure this past week of Vinayak (Vinay) Prasad, MD, as ...

Vinay Prasad's interim replacement has concerns about same drug that drove him out. NIH director says employee critics ...

I understand the heartbreak of watching someone you love spiral. But compassion cannot mean locking people up,” writes a STAT ...

Dr George Tidmarsh, a former pharmaceutical executive who joined the FDA this month, will take over Prasad’s role temporarily.

Over a whirlwind three weeks, Sarepta Therapeutics has faced tough safety questions around its commercial gene therapy ...

This week on "The Readout LOUD," STAT's biotech reporters parse what Vinay Prasad's ouster means for biotech and the FDA.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARWR) is a biotechnology company specializing in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics ...

But this time, the unknown is hitting the industry in a different way from when Prasad was tapped to lead CBER less than ...

The president overruled his HHS secretary and FDA chief, four people with knowledge of the decision tell POLITICO.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s polarizing vaccine chief is leaving the agency after a brief tenure that ...

George Tidmarsh has only been at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research for nine days, but will now add supervision of a ...