HHS Has Yet to Use Four-Year-Old Authorities to Hire 2,000 Biomedical Researchers

Government Executive: The Trump administration has not yet implemented a law passed in late 2016 to allow several agencies to hire biomedical researchers with special authority and boosted pay who could have assisted in the government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The 21st Century Cures Act, enacted in December of 2016, provided an avenue for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration to bring on an additional 1,500 scientists in biomedicine, bioinformatics, engineering and related fields with a salary of up to $400,000.

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