NIH: Jay Bhattacharya
Jayanta "Jay" Bhattacharya this week became the 18th director of the National Institutes of Health, replacing Acting Director Matthew Memoli. He was nominated by President Trump last November and confirmed by the US Senate on March 25. Bhattacharya was a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where his research focused on population aging and chronic disease. During the COVID pandemic, he coauthored the controversial Great Barrington Declaration. He holds bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in economics as well as an MD degree from Stanford University.