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White House to tap cancer leader Monica Bertagnolli as new NIH director
Long-awaited decision comes more than a year after Francis Collins resigned as director of the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world.
In a hotly anticipated decision, the White House will probably nominate Monica Bertagnolli, the current head of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), to lead the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) next week, a source who is familiar with the decision told Nature.