The White House plans to nominate Monica M. Bertagnolli, a Boston cancer surgeon who became director of the National Cancer Institute last fall, to lead the National Institutes of Health. If nominated, Bertagnolli would have to be confirmed by the Senate.
“The fact is that the bat coronavirus research conducted by EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology could not have started the COVID-19 pandemic,” the group said this week.
“I’m a big fan of the NIH … but I will say I’m concerned by the pace of scientific research that we’re seeing,” Rep. Josh Harder said at a hearing Wednesday addressing the NIH’s budget requests.Bertagnolli, a 64-year-old expert in clinical trials, is the first woman to lead the NCI. Last fall, several weeks after taking the helm of the cancer institute, she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer following a routine mammogram in Boston.
, which is designed to reduce cancer death rates and achieve the goals laid out by President Biden as part of his cancer moonshot initiative.Bertagnolli grew up on her parents’ cattle ranch in southwestern Wyoming, learning to ride horses and mend fences, 90 miles from the nearest town. At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Bertagnolli was known as “a happy surgeon and a big-case surgeon” willing to perform technically difficult, high-risk operations that other doctors turned down, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and writer who trained under Bertagnolli, told The Post last year.
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