NIH in limbo

[Anonymous]

Jay Bhattacharya, prominent physician and economist, nominated by Trump for NIH director.


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jay-bhattacharya-prominent-physician-economist-nominated-trump-nih-director.amp

[Anonymous]

I'm a former nih intramural investigator. With what I have seen in the past 15 years, nih really needs an overhaul.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a former nih intramural investigator. With what I have seen in the past 15 years, nih really needs an overhaul.

Why did you leave? Couldn’t hack it?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/16/nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-covid-great-barrington-declaration/

I love this. Francis Collins called Dr. Bhattacharya a fringe epidemiologist for daring to voice a different view on covid restrictions, and it would be poetic justice for him to replace Collins.

Well said. NIH has become the exact opposite of science. Fauci had a horrific reputation.

Fauci does not = NIH. NIH does not only do vaccines and Covid research. There are many, many hard working researchers there who are doing fantastic, innovative science. You have no idea what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a former nih intramural investigator. With what I have seen in the past 15 years, nih really needs an overhaul.

In what area? There are so many areas of research, how can you make such a ridiculous generalization.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jay Bhattacharya, prominent physician and economist, nominated by Trump for NIH director.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jay-bhattacharya-prominent-physician-economist-nominated-trump-nih-director.amp

I'm an NIHer who is very happy to see this nomination.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former nih intramural investigator. With what I have seen in the past 15 years, nih really needs an overhaul.

Why did you leave? Couldn’t hack it?

NP, not intramural but elsewhere in NIH, so I can hazard a guess - sexual harassment? Gender discrimination? Sexual orientation discrimination?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former nih intramural investigator. With what I have seen in the past 15 years, nih really needs an overhaul.

Why did you leave? Couldn’t hack it?

Yeah, I couldnt hack taking trips abroad on taxpayers' dime, presenting salami posters and rehashed talks from 5 years ago. Patient care with so much red tape, where it matters who you know and who you piss off. Never ending cycle of the old boys' club who sits in leadership

[Anonymous]

Companies like Capital One, Goldman etc. very common to let bottom 5 percent go every year.
With 18,000 people letting go 600 is the bottom 3.5 percent.

Hardly moves the needle on productivity or might improve productivity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RFK has said he would gut 600 employees at NIH. Wonder which roles they will be with over 18k employees.

"Procurement" = useless boomers. Cut them first. That way the oligarchs can reign supreme.

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Anonymous wrote:he will outsource most of the in-house R&D and other work.

Doesn't happen. It's all done by industry. And nobody is "in bed" with the drug industry at NIH.

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Anonymous wrote:I would assume his approach will be less vaccines and NIH (FDA and CDC are much bigger fish to fry in that realm) and more a general overhaul in line with his thoughts on preventative health.

Plus his concerns about conflict of interest with the pharmaceutical industry.

Looking forward to shining some light on this. Our regulators should not be in bed with big business.

Putting a single cancer or Alzheimer's drug on the market costs on average 2.5B over more than 10 years (for ONE medication). Only Big Pharma has those deep pockets.

You guys really need to educate yourselves before you shoot yourselves in the foot.

- research scientist.

DP. I don't understand your point. I think many people have concerns about the revolving door (from federal oversight/regulation positions to Pharma jobs). While those may not be NIH jobs per se, how does what you post pertain to minimizing conflict of interest, be it NIH, FDA, or CDC?

The door doesn't revolve. People serve time with the Feds, move to industry and can never afford to go back unless they serve in an appointed position for a year or two. Tump's Gotleib for example.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, grant PIs are mostly older white guys and system is rigged so as no DEI can change this, right?

I only know one center but this is so true. The way DEI played out was not well done so I can easily see the DEI efforts cut and nobody will care, including the various offices of women's health that are largely weak....by design.

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Anonymous wrote:Hope he knows mRNA vaccine research has huge implications for cancer therapies….

Yes, he's well aware that these vaccines will cause an enormous uptick in certain cancers.

Idiot. We are about 5 years away from an mRNA cancer treatment/vax. It will do both. MAGIC. I'm serious. This science is magic. (HPV, if you are curious, that will probably be the first). Leading cause of many cancers including head and neck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a former nih intramural investigator. With what I have seen in the past 15 years, nih really needs an overhaul.

Why did you leave? Couldn’t hack it?

DP: Probably got a job that paid way more in industry.