President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s top governmental biomedical research agency said he has no plans to lay off more people at the department that’s already been beset by budget cuts.
“I have no intention to cut anyone,” at the US National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health economist and doctor, said Wednesday in a confirmation hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. “I’m going to understand what resources the whole NIH needs and make sure that the scientists that are working at the NIH have the resources to ...