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NIH Director Grilled by Lawmakers on Budget Cuts

Testifying before an Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya defended the Trump administration’s proposed $18 billion reduction in the ...
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NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology

Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory. “This one ...
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COVID Origins Controversy Sparks Walkout During NIH Event

About 27 minutes into his speech, as director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya discussed the possibility that NIH-sponsored research contributed to the virus’s origins, dozens of NIH staff — including ...
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Senators grill NIH director on massive budget cuts

(CNN) — National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya faced critical questions from both Republican and Democratic senators Tuesday as he sought to defend the Trump administration’s ...
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NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies

In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and two colleagues published an open letter calling for a ...