“The Bethesda Declaration”: Sounding the Alarm on the Growing Chaos at NIH

More than 300 officials and scientists from all of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) 27 institutes and centers, have signed and sent a letter – titled “The Bethesda Declaration” (the NIH is located in Bethesda, Maryland) — to Jay Bhattacharya, the Trump-nominated director of NIH. The letter harshly criticizes the sweeping changes which have plunged the agency into chaos. It urges the director to reverse some of the most damaging shifts, which threaten to further debilitate the agency.

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