Abstract
President Joe Biden has nominated Monica Bertagnolli to be director of the US National Institutes of Health. If confirmed by the Senate, Bertagnolli would be the second woman to lead the NIH since the agency was founded in 1887. The first was Bernadine Healy, who was appointed in 1991. Last August, Biden appointed Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon , to direct the NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI). She was the first woman to hold the position. “Dr. Bertagnolli is a world-class physician-scientist whose vision and leadership will ensure NIH continues to be an engine of innovation to improve the health of the American people,” Biden says in a statement announcing the nomination. Bertagnolli will be filling a position that opened up when former NIH director Francis Collins stepped down in December 2021. Lawrence Tabak has served as acting director. Before her appointment to the NCI, Bertagnolli was a professor of surgical
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