Politico January 15, 2025
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National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli wishes she’d had the opportunity to help shape GOP plans to overhaul her agency.
“I found that once we got in a room together and really sat down and discussed the pros and cons of different approaches, we made great progress working together,” Bertagnolli told Erin on Tuesday, after she announced she’s leaving the agency on Friday.
Bertagnolli definitely isn’t endorsing some of congressional Republicans’ more far-reaching plans, like consolidating the agency’s divisions, and certainly not Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s threat to fire hundreds of NIH workers. But she does see reason for a serious-minded rethink of the way the $47 billion agency pursues health care breakthroughs.
“I had a great...
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