‘It’s carnage’: Former NIH director decries Trump administration efforts to slash research spending
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Rebecca Trager2025-08-11T13:32:00
Elias Zerhouni tells Chemistry World what’s changed from when he was appointed by a Republican president to the current Trump administration
When Elias Zerhouni, a radiologist and biomedical engineer turned entrepreneur and pharmaceutical industry executive, was appointed to lead the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) by former US president George W Bush in 2002, he became the first immigrant to head the agency.