Gabrielle M. Etzel is the healthcare policy reporter for the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the Washington Examiner, she served as a staff reporter at Campus Reform and as a freelance writer.
Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted with the Democratic majority on Wednesday morning to advance President Joe Biden's nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health, Monica Bertagnolli, despite strong opposition from committee chairman Bernie Sanders .
Biden nominated Bertagnolli, the current head of the National Cancer Institute at NIH, in May for the directorship position after the former director, Francis Collins, retired in December 2021. In her hearing last week, Bertagnolli reaffirmed her promise that she would not take a position at a major pharmaceutical company within the first four years of her retirement from the public sector. She also promised to comply with congressional oversight efforts, especially regarding the ongoing investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Pro Tempore of the Senate Patty Murray voted in favor of Bertagnolli's confirmation, saying that she is the"right person to ensure the NIH stays on the cutting edge of innovation and research and fulfills its critical mission."
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