The Senate voted along party lines Tuesday to confirm Jay Bhattacharya as the next director of the National Institutes of Health. The vote was 53-47.
As director, Bhattacharya would oversee the $48.6 billion agency, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, has been a vocal critic of the NIH.
