Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, a former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), died on June 7, 2002, at age 77. Dr. Fredrickson served as NIH director from 1975 to 1981, but his career there began in 1953 as a staff scientist at the National Heart Institute. Dr. ...
Sweepinglayoffs are set to hit federal health and science agencies, including at the National Institutes of Health, and former director Monica Bertagnolli called the situation at the NIH “devastating.” “We’re going to lose the next generation, that is the most difficult loss. This just sen...
“The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions,” according to the order. Trump in 2018 revoked the clearance of ex-CIA Director John Brennan, an outspoken critic...
I don’t have easy solutions to this, but I don’t think the solution really is to try to get the NIH more engaged in trying to manage the downstream cost. We tried that; some 30 years ago, there was an effort, with contracts that were going to be put between the intramural program...
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, has parroted Russian propaganda while his nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, has promised changes that could significantly curtail the flow of intelligence to America’s friends. Both are expected to face sharp questioning from...
BEIJING (Reuters) -The former director of the competition department at the Chinese Football Association, Huang Song, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for taking bribes, state broadcaster CCTV said on Tuesday. Huang was also fined 600,000 yuan ($84,000), CCTV reported. I...
Zapata was serving as deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she used her work-issued laptop to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers, according to a criminal complaint. She se...
Zhang recently retired from Boston Scientific Corporation as Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Medical Affairs and Health Economics for Asia Pacific. Before joining Boston Scientific, Dr. Zhang served as the Global Medical Director of Johnson & Johnson...
The term “Green Revolution” was introduced by William Gaud, the former Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 14. Their role as well as a contradictory nature of the results of their activity can be compared with the activity of East Indian companies of ...
Joining me today at the Celebration of Science Conference at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is Andrew C. von Eschenbach, President of Samaritan Health Initiatives, former Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and former Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI...