NIH Appoints Higher Ed Association Official to Post

The National Institutes of Health on Monday appointed a senior official at the Association of American Universities to head its legislative affairs office. Pat White, who as vice president for federal relations at the research university group has been a well-respected analyst of biomedical research and science funding, will become the biomedical research agency's associate director for legislative policy and analysis, where he will lead the office that tracks and analyzes legislation related to the agency's work.