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2 weeks ago | politico.com | Erin Schumaker |Ruth Reader

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sparred over a proposal in the White House budget plan to give more grant recipients their money up front during a Senate Appropriations panel hearing on the agency’s budget Tuesday. At the hearing, Baldwin asked Bhattacharya to explain the proposal’s “forward-funding scheme,” which she said would result in even deeper cuts to the NIH than the 40 percent cut proposed by the White House.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Danny Nguyen |Ruth Reader

Artificial intelligence is upending how industries function and it’s coming for scientific research next. Rene Caissie, an adjunct professor at Stanford University, wants AI to conduct research. In 2021, he started a company, Medeloop.ai, that lets public health departments, researchers and life sciences companies pose research questions and receive answers immediately. And, unlike many AI systems, Caissie told Ruth, the AI explains those answers by showing the data its results are based on.

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Erin Schumaker |Ruth Reader

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, a cancer researcher and associate dean for oncology at Brown University, has an unlikely sales pitch for President Donald Trump: Pick me to lead the nation’s cancer research and give me a lot more money to spend on it. Despite slashing billions in health research grants and proposing further cuts in next year’s budget, Trump is considering El-Deiry to lead the National Cancer Institute after a recent interview for the job.

1 month ago | politico.com | Ruth Reader

One of the cutting-edge technologies the Food and Drug Administration wants to use to replace animal studies might not be ready for a solo performance. Organ-on-a-chip technology, which uses human cells on microfluidic chips to mimic the structure and function of organs in a laboratory setting, can’t yet replace animal tests, according to a .

1 month ago | politico.com | Ruth Reader

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promising to “do more with less” — with the help of artificial intelligence. “The AI revolution has arrived, and we are already using these new technologies to manage health care data more efficiently and securely,” he told the House Appropriations Committee at Wednesday’s hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services’ budget.