夹在中间的人：NIH主任杰伊·巴塔查里亚的困境

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has struggled to convince observers he has the agency’s best interests in mind—and is truly in charge JOCELYN KAISER By the end of the summer of 2025, some of the chaos that had greeted Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya when he arrived on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) campus in Bethesda, Maryland, was subsiding. President Donald Trump’s pick to head NIH had taken the helm on 1 April amid a blur of mass firings, grant cuts, and funding freezes ordered by his superiors. But 5 months later, NIH had rehired some scientists and courts had temporarily restored many grants. Congress had signaled it would reject Trump’s proposal to slash NIH’s $47 billion budget by 40%. …