The director of NIAID is appointed by the head of the NIH, who must be approved by the Senate. Directors have broad ...

Local research and biotechnology laboratories Trudeau Institute and Ampersand Biosciences have received a $1 million grant to ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has elevated the problem of wasteful spending from ...

Director Monica Bertagnolli will resign on Jan. 17, she told staff this week, ending her tenure as the head of the $48 ...

To improve and streamline oversight of risky pathogen research, President-elect Donald Trump should create a new biosafety ...

Jason McLellan, professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at UT, will be ...

COVID-19 Phase 2b study poised to initiate 10,000 participant portion of trial pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of sentinel ...

McLellan, who will be inducted in Washington, D.C. on May 8, is among the youngest new inductees in hall of fame history.

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious illness.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) formally debarred Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a ...

Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will ...

When the shiny white pickup turns off of Canal Street, the new year is just hours old and none of the revelers in New Orleans ...