There’s a new head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed on June 9, weeks after lawmakers said the acting NIAID director had stepped down.
The website for NIAID, part of the NIH, was updated Tuesday to show that Dr. John Powers III is now the acting director of the institute.
Powers was previously NIAID’s deputy director. Before that, he was the primary senior adviser to NIAID’s director, advising leaders “on strategic initiatives in infectious diseases research, clinical trials, antimicrobial resistance, and the development and evaluation of medical interventions to improve health outcomes,” according to his biography….