National Institutes of Health director Monica Bertagnolli will resign on Jan. 17, she told staff this week, ending her tenure leading the $48 billion biomedical research agency after only a year.

“I am so proud of what NIH has been able to achieve in such a short time under my leadership,” Bertagnolli said in her announcement, touting a list of initiatives launched that she hopes the next administration will continue.

The NIH has typically been an agency with bipartisan support, and Bertagnolli's predecessor, Francis Collins, served three........

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