STAT+: NIH announces six new acting institute directors, many of them filling posts of ousted predecessors
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The National Institutes of Health on Friday announced six acting directors to run institutes, many to fill vacancies created by the ouster<\/a> of predecessors as part of the Trump administration\u2019s unprecedented reshaping of federal scientific agencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n In an email from the NIH Executive Secretariat obtained by STAT, the agency said it was naming Courtney Aklin to run the National Institute of Nursing Research; Alison Cernich to run the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development; Monica Webb Hooper to run the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; Andrea Beckel-Mitchener to run the National Institute of Mental Health; Carolyn Hutter to run the National Human Genome Research Institute; and Jeff Taubenberger to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n The NIH email encourages staff to \u201cplease welcome these distinguished colleagues as they begin their new roles.\u201d\u00a0But the future of some of these acting directors is uncertain. That\u2019s because a draft Trump administration budget leaked<\/a> on April 16 revealed plans to cut NIH\u2019s spending by 40% and to reorganize the agency\u2019s 27 institutes and centers into eight. That plan involves eliminating four centers, including NINR and NIMHD, and folding NIMH and two other institutes into a new National Institute of Behavioral Health.\u00a0<\/p>\n Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n