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Biden names former DARPA leader Arati Prabhakar as science adviser

Scientists applaud the nominee, who is set to replace Eric Lander following his controversial exit from the White House science office.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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US President Joe Biden has nominated Arati Prabhakar, an applied physicist with extensive experience in both government and the private sector, to be head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and named her as his next science adviser. The appointment comes four months after the controversial departure of Biden’s previous science adviser, geneticist Eric Lander. It is a crucial moment, as the Biden administration seeks to advance its agenda on science, innovation and climate.

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Nature 606, 847-848 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01688-x

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