March 26, 2025 9:18 AM

US Senate confirms Jay Bhattacharya as Director of National Institutes of Health

The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Indian-origin Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford School of Medicine, as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). According to the official website of the US Senate, Bhattacharya won the vote 53-47 during the first session of the roll call vote in the 119th Congress. An earlier nomination statement from former US President Donald Trump described Bhattacharya as a professor of health policy at Stanford University, a res...