The Second Trump White House Could Drastically Reshape Infectious Disease Research. Here’s What’s At Stake.
The director of NIAID is appointed by the head of the NIH, who must be approved by the Senate. Directors have broad ...
NIH director to step down ahead of Trump inauguration
Director Monica Bertagnolli will resign on Jan. 17, she told staff this week, ending her tenure as the head of the $48 ...
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Memo to Trump: Create a new biosafety and biosecurity agency to oversee research
To improve and streamline oversight of risky pathogen research, President-elect Donald Trump should create a new biosafety ...
France confirms first case of new mpox strain
French health officials announced on Tuesday its first case of a dangerous new strain of the mpox virus that has created ...
UT scientist selected for National Inventors Hall of Fame for work on COVID, RSV vaccines
Jason McLellan, professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at UT, will be ...
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Officials assess threat of H5N1 avian flu
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1) remains a low risk to the general public, and public health experts in the United States believe that available treatments and vaccines, as ...
Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in effort to guard against potential revenge by Trump
The decision by Biden on Monday came after Donald Trump warned of an enemies list filled with those who have crossed him ...