National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya faced critical questions from both Republican and Democratic senators Tuesday as he sought to defend the Trump administration’s sweeping plans to reorganize the agency and slash budgets for medical research.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, repeatedly pledged during the hour and a half hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee that the 40 percent cut would not change the agency’s commitment to research that keeps America at the forefront of scientific and medical innovation.

U.S. senators grilled National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jayanta Bhattacharya at a hearing on 10 June about how his professed support for science squares with unprecedented funding delays and research-grant terminations at the agency this year,

During a Senate hearing, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., said the last few months have been “bumpy,” while underscoring Congress’ role in approving a budget and taking full responsibility for the agency’s move away from “politicized science.”

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya faced questions from senators during an Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday, as the federal government agency has taken hits to its

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told the Senate Appropriations Committee that Donald Trump's budget is "not a final thing," but Republicans and Democrats protested.

By Chad Terhune (Reuters) -Dozens of scientists, researchers and other employees at the U.S. National Institutes of Health issued a rare public rebuke Monday criticizing the Trump administration for major spending cuts that “harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,

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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sparred over a proposal in the White House budget plan to give more grant recipients their money up front during a Senate Appropriations panel hearing on the agency’s budget Tuesday.

The National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said he is open to an increased budget from Congress during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, during which Republicans