The job leading the National Institutes of Health, the life-sciences research agency, has gone unfilled for more than a year with at least two candidates backing out, people familiar with the search say
The top job at the National Institutes of Health, a prestigious role that has attracted a Nobel Prize winner and other leading scientists, is going unfilled as candidates back out.
At least two potential choices for the job have walked away, and the White House has struggled finding qualified candidates willing to fill a job that would probably force them to take a substantial pay cut and face popular attacks on scientists, people familiar with the search said.
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