President Joe Biden has appointed world-renowned surgical oncologist Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as the new Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Dr. Bertagnolli will be the 16th American and the first woman to lead the country's largest biomedical research institute.
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