A Food and Drug Administration official who stepped down less than two weeks ago is getting his job back as the agency’s top vaccine regulator. Dr.

Vinay Prasad is returning to his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy and blood product regulation at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a little more than a week after he left the agency. "At the FDA's request,

Vinay Prasad was reinstated as the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 11 August. He had resigned on 29 July.1 “At the FDA’s request,