After nearly two years with an acting director, the U.S. NIH now has a confirmed leader. The Senate voted 62-36 Nov. 7 to confirm Monica Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon and researcher, as the next director of the research agency.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is set to conduct a phase I trial with Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp.’s TNX-1800 (recombinant horsepox virus, live vaccine), a vaccine candidate to protect against COVID-19.
Advocates of expanded use of telehealth in the U.S. may believe they have an unfairly high evidentiary bar to meet to bring payers on board, but that evidentiary requirement just received support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
