Two Scientists Will Replace U.S. Science Adviser Eric Lander

Photos: Alondra Nelson (left) is a deputy director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Francis Collins retired in December from the helm of the US National Institutes of Health. Photo credit: Kevin Lamarque / Alamy Stock Photo; Lucy Nicholson / Alamy Stock Photo. Article by Lauren Wolf, Jeff Tollefson, Amy Maxmen, Nature magazine via Scientific American on February 18, 2022.

US President Joe Biden has replaced his disgraced science adviser, Eric Lander, with two scientists who will split Lander’s duties “until permanent leadership is nominated and confirmed”, according to the White House.

Alondra Nelson, deputy director for science and society at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which Lander led, will become acting director of the agency. And Francis Collins, who led the US National Institutes of Health before retiring in December, will temporarily become Biden’s science adviser and co-chair the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). […]

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