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positions to fill, including who will be the head of the National Institutes of Health — and one candidate has risen to the top of that list., Stanford University physician and economist Jay Bhattacharya is the top candidate for the high-level position in an agency that oversees biomedical research in the United States.
The report noted that Bhattacharya impressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week at a meeting between the two about potential reforms of the NIH. Those reforms have included directing funding to more innovative research and lessening the influence of some of the senior officials at the agency. Trump appointed Kennedy to lead the the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH and other health agencies. Trump announced the picks for some of those other agencies last night, including Marty Makary as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Dave Weldon as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. KennedyBhattacharya has been a strong critic of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, directing specific attention at Dr.
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