Healthcare Finance News March 31, 2025
Susan Morse

Marks reportedly was offered the choice of resigning or being fired by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Dr. Peter Marks has resigned from his position as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration.

Marks was offered the choice of resigning or being fired by Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to AP, citing a former FDA official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

RFK Jr. “wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks said in his March 28 resignation letter to Dr. Sara Brenner, acting commissioner of Food and Drugs for the FDA.

His resignation is effective April 5.

“Over the past 13 years I have done...

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