HHS Ousts Peter Marks, Sending Vaccine Stocks Tumbling and Biopharma Lamenting Loss of ‘Ally’ at FDA
“Pharma stocks tumbled today after Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for authorizing vaccines, resigned under pressure from his new boss, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden …