Congratulations Dr. Prasad! Thank you for being a steady, clear, and courageous voice of reason. It is encouraging that UCSF recognized and rewarded your significant contributions. I hope that your approach will inspire more independent voices in medicine. Wishing you continued success and happiness!
My late father was a professor of neurology at UCSF decades ago. He prized honesty, discourse, and curiosity in science and medicine above all. I am sure he would have been pleased that someone of your character and caliber has been promoted in an era of politically driven rancor and dishonesty in science. Congratulations to you and to UCSF.
First, congratulations because this is a great achievement. Second, while regulatory capture is alive and well within the FDA, sadly even in DO and the OCE, there are many very good doctors and scientists that are part of FDA's oncology review teams, especially related to pediatric oncology. I've worked with a number of small pharma and biotech companies developing oncology therapeutics, and we are always pressed with hard questions. They push us for truly informative trial designs (which can be difficult in the setting of a rare and fatal disease where there is no approved therapy or standard of care), and unbiased data analyses. So I think it's important not to paint the Agency with too broad of a brush. The captured element of the FDA is generally at the appointed level, I think. Third, I would like to see you apply the EBM approach to what we are seeing with regards to safety outcomes across all age groups with the transfection injection products for covid 19. There is much data out there, including huge increases in all-cause mortality that appeared to coincide with the update of these products, and your critical eye and understanding would be incredibly useful here. It can be hard to parse out the truth from those evaluating these data - so many have a bias (in both directions). You have a platform here, and I hope your courage will lead you in this direction. Because depending on who you believe, we could be killing or permanently damaging millions of people with these shots. Or, they could be nothing but safe and effective. We really need leaderdhip and guidance from the medical community, from practicing physicians. Everyone else seems to have an agenda.
Congratulations! You sere(are)an island of sanity to me during covid and the crazy-making response. You courageously questioned and continued to speak. You gave airtime to other scientists who were irrationally and unfairly maligned. I often worried was that at a place like UCSF you’d be fired! So it is heart warming to learn that not only weren’t you let go, but you have received a professorship. Really heartwarming ! You deserve it!
Congratulations! Reading this piece makes me realize how little I know about what being a professor entails. You will be leaving your mark on this world for sure!!
Great read and congrats. Your a shining star in the med space. We are in the midst of a generational transformation - data analytics need to be embedded in the DNA of “science” and medicine.
Major congratulations on your well-deserved promotion. In some of the darkest days of the covid BS, when institutional fear ruled the roost (and still does for many), getting your Substack & YouTube were rays of hope for me. You also taught me how to critically read a study and the value of stepping up and saying/doing the right thing even when it goes against the current. Thank you. I look forward to more. Our dealings with this virus are not over and we need your voice out there more than ever.
Congrats Dr VP. I'll admit I'm surprised you got it, in light of your Substack & Youtube. There's hope yet!
Congratulations Dr. Prasad! Thank you for being a steady, clear, and courageous voice of reason. It is encouraging that UCSF recognized and rewarded your significant contributions. I hope that your approach will inspire more independent voices in medicine. Wishing you continued success and happiness!
Congratulations! This gives me hope for Academia!
My late father was a professor of neurology at UCSF decades ago. He prized honesty, discourse, and curiosity in science and medicine above all. I am sure he would have been pleased that someone of your character and caliber has been promoted in an era of politically driven rancor and dishonesty in science. Congratulations to you and to UCSF.
Congratulations! It’s always great to see the good guys get ahead.
Congrats VP. There is hope for thoughtful, intelligent reason and logic to remain in the medical mainstream and be recognized by the institutions.
Congratulations. Please maintain your independence.
This is so AWESOME!
You stayed true to yourself...and got promoted in an environment that either scared everyone in to group-think or literally brainwashed them in to it.
Keep on keeping on!
#hopeful
First, congratulations because this is a great achievement. Second, while regulatory capture is alive and well within the FDA, sadly even in DO and the OCE, there are many very good doctors and scientists that are part of FDA's oncology review teams, especially related to pediatric oncology. I've worked with a number of small pharma and biotech companies developing oncology therapeutics, and we are always pressed with hard questions. They push us for truly informative trial designs (which can be difficult in the setting of a rare and fatal disease where there is no approved therapy or standard of care), and unbiased data analyses. So I think it's important not to paint the Agency with too broad of a brush. The captured element of the FDA is generally at the appointed level, I think. Third, I would like to see you apply the EBM approach to what we are seeing with regards to safety outcomes across all age groups with the transfection injection products for covid 19. There is much data out there, including huge increases in all-cause mortality that appeared to coincide with the update of these products, and your critical eye and understanding would be incredibly useful here. It can be hard to parse out the truth from those evaluating these data - so many have a bias (in both directions). You have a platform here, and I hope your courage will lead you in this direction. Because depending on who you believe, we could be killing or permanently damaging millions of people with these shots. Or, they could be nothing but safe and effective. We really need leaderdhip and guidance from the medical community, from practicing physicians. Everyone else seems to have an agenda.
Congratulations! You sere(are)an island of sanity to me during covid and the crazy-making response. You courageously questioned and continued to speak. You gave airtime to other scientists who were irrationally and unfairly maligned. I often worried was that at a place like UCSF you’d be fired! So it is heart warming to learn that not only weren’t you let go, but you have received a professorship. Really heartwarming ! You deserve it!
Well done! Love your work!
Congratulations! Reading this piece makes me realize how little I know about what being a professor entails. You will be leaving your mark on this world for sure!!
Congratulations. Please keep up all of the good work.
Congratulations!
Great read and congrats. Your a shining star in the med space. We are in the midst of a generational transformation - data analytics need to be embedded in the DNA of “science” and medicine.
Major congratulations on your well-deserved promotion. In some of the darkest days of the covid BS, when institutional fear ruled the roost (and still does for many), getting your Substack & YouTube were rays of hope for me. You also taught me how to critically read a study and the value of stepping up and saying/doing the right thing even when it goes against the current. Thank you. I look forward to more. Our dealings with this virus are not over and we need your voice out there more than ever.