Breaking News: Trump Picks Jay Bhattacharya As Director Of National Institutes Of Health….Read More

Donald Trump has nominated Jay Bhattacharya as Director of the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya

US President-elect Donald Trump has announced the nomination of Jay Bhattacharya to Director of the National Institutes of Health.

A statement from Trump read, “I am thrilled to nominate Jay Bhattacharya, Md, PhD, to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bhattacharya will work in coordination with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives.”

Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will 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. Together they will work hard to Make America Healthy Again!”.

In an X post, Bhattacharya said this team would “reform American scientific institutions” to make the country healthy again.

“I am honored and humbled by President Donald Trump’s nomination of me to be the next National Institutes of Health director. We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!” he wrote.