Jayanta ‘Jay’ Bhattacharya took office as the 18th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday, Apr. 1. Nominated by President Donald Trump for the position in Nov. 2024, and ...

Jayanta Bhattacharya was born in 1968 in Kolkata, India. He has built a career that bridges medicine and economics. Through his research, teaching, and policy work, he has become a respected voice in ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice this week to lead the National Institutes of Health is a controversial Stanford researcher who was highly critical of the COVID-19 pandemic response, drawing ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted along party lines to confirm Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world.

Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory. “This one ...

In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns ...

Pres. Trump’s second term has caused uncertainty for the medical research community, with cuts to research funding and attacks on vaccination policy. Dr. Bhattacharya, Director of the National ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. In October, Jay Bhattacharya, then a health economist at Stanford ...

WASHINGTON, DC – On March 27, newly confirmed NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya directed staff to compile a list of grants and contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation” — a step ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s choice to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, right, speaks with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, center, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ...