Former NCI director John Niederhuber is keeping relatively calm about the White House plan to slash the NIH budget.
“I guess my reaction was that, this is the White House recommendation, the President’s recommendation,” said Niederhuber, who served as NCI director from 2006 to 2010. “When people have asked me about it, I’ve said we should not panic yet. This is a process and that’s the beginning of the process.”