More on NIH and the Transition
December 13th, 2008Posted by: admin
The Washington Post is running an article today that serves as a good follow-up to what I posted yesterday about former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni and the issues facing the agency. One of the comments to yesterday’s post focused on the challenges facing young researchers in fields supported by NIH, and the article gives more details to the problems. Director Zerhouni has made efforts to support young researchers, and the Obama campaign was generally supportive of doing the same. Unfortunately, an announcement of Zerhouni’s replacement seems a ways off, as ‘observers’ following the transition indicated there was no leading candidate for the position.