Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out.

FDA commissioner Marty Makary told FDA staff in an email that Prasad, “brings a great set of skills, energy, and competence to the FDA,” Axios reported.

Vinay Prasad, a critic of the Food and Drug Administration, has been tapped as the agency’s top regulator of vaccines, gene therapies and the blood supply.