Jay Bhattacharya Emerges as Leading Candidate for NIH Director Under Trump
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Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and economist from Stanford University, is reportedly the leading candidate to be appointed by President-elect Donald Trump as the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bhattacharya has proposed significant changes to the NIH, including a shift towards funding more innovative research and reducing the influence of long-serving officials. He recently met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was impressed by his ideas for overhauling the nearly $50 billion agency.
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