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.

Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine regulator at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was forced to resign, citing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "misinformation and lies" around immunization.

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,

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy said Tuesday the abrupt resignation of the nation’s chief vaccines regulator did not violate his pact with health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a

Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Peter Marks, has been pushed out, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, resigns after being pressured by HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Marks criticized Kennedy for promoting vaccine misinformation and appointing vaccine skeptic David Geier to study the debunked vaccine-autism link.

In his resignation letter, Marks cited disagreement with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who he said pushed “misinformation and lies.”