Politicisation of NIH spotlighted at Bertagnolli Senate hearing

After world’s largest funder of medical research spends a year without a permanent head, US Senate gives Harvard oncologist a list of political pleas but no serious opposition

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October 19, 2023

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October 20, 2023

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