The Food and Drug Administration has rehired the vaccine chief who resigned just two weeks ago. Dr. Vinay Prasad led the FDA’s vaccines and gene therapy division until he was forced to resign in late July after a public pressure campaign led by far-right activist Laura Loomer.

A top Food and Drug Administration official is getting his job back, a spokesman for health agencies said Saturday, less than two weeks after he was ousted at the direction of the White House. Vinay Prasad will return as the top regulator overseeing vaccines and complex treatments for difficult diseases,

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a vocal critic of the FDA before joining its ranks, has stepped down from his leadership post at the agency after less than three months on the job. Prasad, who took charge of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research in May and was later named chief medical and scientific officer—the New York Times calls him the