President Biden on Monday nominated cancer surgeon Monica M. Bertagnolli to be head of the National Institutes of Health, seeking to fill the leadership role atop the $46 billion health agency that has sat empty for more than a year.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities called on the Senate to quickly confirm Bertagnolli.
The NIH has faced mounting scrutiny from Republicans who have launched investigations of the coronavirus pandemic, including whether the agency’s funding of virus research inadvertently led to the pandemic. House Republicans last week also Meanwhile, progressives and advocacy organizations have put their own pressures on NIH, anticipating Biden's announcement of a new director.
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