Carlos Arteaga, a breast cancer expert, was named director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center. His appointment begins Sept. 1.Arteaga comes to UT Southwestern from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, where he has been on faculty since 1989.
The Biden administration has left NIH in a weakened state, intensifying politicization of science on Capitol Hill and eroding the bipartisan support the government’s premier biomedical research agency has traditionally enjoyed.
