Senate confirms cancer surgeon as NIH director

Share on linkedin Monica Bertagnolli in her office at NIH. Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Imagesas National Institutes of Health director, filling a key federal research position that's been vacant for nearly two years.A cancer doctor with a thin political resume, Bertagnolli takes the helm of the giant biomedical institution amid heated debates over the cost of drugs it helped develop and questions over how it oversees risky research and foreign collaborations.

Sanders voted against Bertagnolli on Tuesday, while Republicans supporting her included Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, the ranking member of the chamber's health committee. Funding for the institutes is also caught up in the broader congressional tempest over averting a government shutdown. The White House has said a shutdown wouldShare on facebook Share on email

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