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President Joe Biden today announced his intention to nominate NCI director Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, FACS, FASCO, as director of the NIH.Bertagnolli — a surgical oncologist — assumed the NCI director role in October, becoming the first woman to serve in that position.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday chose cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli to be director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after a year-long search to find a permanent replacement for the agency's long-serving head Francis Collins.
President Biden will nominate National Cancer Institute head Monica Bertagnolli to lead the full National Institutes of Health as soon as Monday morning, the White House said.