Congressman Andy Harris will probably stay in his current position.
The Eastern Shore Republican told the Salisbury Daily Times that he would probably turn down an offer to head the National Institutes of Health.
The journal Nature reported yesterday that the current NIH director Francis Collins was asked to stay in his job for the time being.
Harris has pushed for reforming NIH as a member of a House Appropriations subcommittee.
He told the paper that he was in a better position get reforms those reforms as a member of congress.
Among other things he has called for grants to go to those in their late 30’s when Nobel Prize winner tend to do the basic work.
