President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday night that he has nominated Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health.
“Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives,” Trump said in a statement.
Bhattacharya is a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and focuses on health policy related to infectious diseases, COVID-19, and health economics.
Trump said Bhattacharya and RFK Jr. would “restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease.”
“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine…
