Trump to nominate Jay Bhattacharya as NIH director

President-elect Donald Trump announced on TruthSocial that he plans to nominate Jay Bhattacharya as director of NIH. Bhattacharya is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and a professor of health policy at Stanford University, where he directs the university’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. Like the president-elect’s picks to lead FDA and HHS, Bhattacharya has been critical of NIH’s COVID policies.

Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd. named Kyung-Ah Kim president and CEO. Kim joined Samsung Bioepis in 2015 and most recently served as EVP and development division leader. She will succeed Christopher Hansung Ko, who will become leader of the company’s Samsung Future Business Division...