NIH Director -- and CDC Acting Director -- Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, had little trouble Tuesday responding to questions from House members during an oversight hearing. [MEDPAGE TODAY]

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"While the promise of the NIH is strong, we must reflect upon policies and evolve with changing technology," Bhattacharya told members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. "And reform is already underway. A new office within the [Office of the Director] will support rigorous analysis of the NIH portfolio to strengthen performance management, accountability, and promote reproducibility of our research, because ... it's vital that the research that we do is reproducible, that an independent team looking at the same result find the same answer."

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