The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick to run the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, filling the director spot at the country’s top medical research agency after a vacancy of almost two years.
Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon, was approved by a bipartisan 62 to 26 vote. The NIH had been without a director since December 2021, when former director Francis Collins retired, ending a 12-year reign…
Source: US Senate confirms Monica Bertagnolli as NIH director. By Ahmed Aboulenein, November 7, 2023. Reuters.
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