By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden will nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, who currently leads the National Cancer Institute, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced on Monday.
President Joe Biden has tapped a cancer specialist to become director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Monica Bertagnolli recently became the first female head of the NIH's National
President Biden will nominate National Cancer Institute head Monica Bertagnolli to lead the full National Institutes of Health as soon as Monday morning, according to people familiar with the decision.
Bertagnolli has been serving as the director of the National Cancer Institute since October 2022 where Biden said she has advanced his Cancer Moonshot effort to end cancer.
President Joe Biden announced Monday he plans to nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to replace Dr. Anthony Fauci as the director of the National Institutes of Health.
President Biden said on Monday that he had selected Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, who has led the National Cancer Institute since October, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health.
Biden administration says it intends to nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to lead National Institutes of Health following a 16-month search for permanent successor to agency's long-serving director, Dr. Francis Collins
President Biden said Monday he will nominate prominent cancer researcher Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to lead the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest biomedical research agency.