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Top NIH nutrition researcher studying ultraprocessed foods departs, citing censorship under Kennedy
When President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, ...
Jay Bhattacharya takes office as the Director of NIH: All you need to know about the Indian-American professor
Jayanta 'Jay' Bhattacharya has been appointed as the 18th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, Bhattacharya aims to focus on ...
Will Jay Bhattacharya Get Gain-of-Function Research Under Control?
In a party-line vote last evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Stanford professor and medical researcher Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National ...
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New NIH director seeks to use ‘gold standard science’ to win back trust in health
To remedy this, he called for the NIH to create incentives to make people healthier to prevent illness from happening. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s choice to be Director of the ...
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Hours after NIH director confirmed, the agency tackles one of his priorities — ending ‘censorship’ in science
In October, Jay Bhattacharya, then a health economist at ... marked “URGENT,” asked contracting officers at the NIH to respond by “noon today” with information on any contract that ...
The Stanford Daily15d
Jay Bhattacharya confirmed as next NIH Director
Medical school professor Jay Bhattacharya M.D. ’97 Ph.D. ’00, President Donald Trump’s top choice to lead the NIH, was confirmed as the director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH ...
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Trump's pick to lead NIH, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, confirmed by Senate in party-line vote
The full Senate voted Tuesday evening to confirm President Donald Trump's pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. The party-line vote followed approval from the ...
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Why a small journal’s ‘blueprint for NIH’ may offer clues to the agency’s future
A paper proposing NIH reforms is circulating in academic circles and within the agency as scientists search for hints of its ...
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The NIH’s Cancellation of Hundreds of Grants Is an ‘Ideological Purge,’ Lawsuit Says
The complaint, filed Wednesday by the American Public Health Association and the United Auto Workers union, joins a ...
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Senate confirms Marty Makary to lead FDA, Jay Bhattacharya to head NIH
The Senate Tuesday confirmed Dr. Marty Makary to run the Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya ... a vote of 56-44, while Bhattacharya was confirmed as NIH director by a margin ...
The Hill22d
Senate confirms Trump’s nominee to run NIH
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed health researcher Jay Bhattacharya as the next leader of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bhattacharya was confirmed on a party- line vote, 53 to 47.
Inside Higher Ed21d
Jay Bhattacharya Confirmed as NIH Director
Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health economist who gained notoriety for his criticism of the NIH’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, secured the confirmation with a 53-to-47 party-line vote ...