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Trump picks Stanford academic Jay Bhattacharya as head of National Institutes of Health

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President-elect Donald Trump has announced India-Origin Dr Jay Bhattacharya as the Director of National Institutes of Health, the country's top public funder of medical research with a budget of some $47.3 billion.

Announcing his nomination, Trump said Stanford academic and US COVID policy critic Dr Bhattacharya would work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to "restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America's biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease".