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,

In late July, Prasad, a hematologist oncologist, said he was resigning because he “did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA.”

The Food and Drug Administration restored a top vaccine regulator to his position at the agency just weeks after firing him. Dr. Vinay Prasad resigned after some of his past comments were highlighted by right-wing commentator Laura Loomer,