President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health is facing questions from a Senate panel. Dr.

The NIH, the main funder of biomedical research, awarded more than 60,000 grants last year totaling about $35 billion. The total is divided into "direct" costs – covering researchers’ salaries and laboratory supplies – and “indirect” costs, the administrative and facility costs needed to support that work.

President Trump's pick to run the National Institutes of Health appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a Senate confirmation hearing. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya praised Florida's response to the COVID-19 pandemic while also claiming that his views were censored.

The Trump administration’s sudden dismissals have stripped training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.

Training program participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.