FDA’s top vaccine chief Peter Marks is out the door!

Amid vaccine safety disputes and looming legal challenges, the agency's vaccine chief Peter Marks exits under intense pressure.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top vaccine regulator, Peter Marks, has abruptly resigned from his post as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), reportedly having been “forced out.”

In his resignation letter, Marks made it clear that he did not leave willingly. He blamed the newly minted Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, for his exit.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote. He also warned of an “unprecedented assault on scientific truth.”

So what actually happened?