Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
16 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2025 by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya · across every show →
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Sep 23, 2025 negative
Bhattacharya: Median age of first-time NIH grant recipients rose to mid-40s
“So, in the data out of the NIH is that from, in the 19 eighties, If you were 35, you actually had a chance of getting a large NIH grant. Like, that was the median age of the first large NIH grant, you were 35 years old. Now you're in your mid-forties.”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Bhattacharya: NIH will evaluate institute directors on portfolio outcomes, not individual grants
“So what I've done is I've asked the institute directors. I've given them the authority essentially to expand what they can do in terms of the portfolio. I'm not going to judge them to make, just like within Silicon Valley, I'm not going to judge them to s on t…”
Sep 23, 2025 negative
Bhattacharya: NIH is capping grant applications to block AI-generated submissions
“I'm just to put a new policy in place where I'm limiting the number of new public applications you can have, like to, we can have, you know, six a year, six a cycle or something. We have people writing 60 applications. And very clearly AI-generated. And then w…”
Sep 23, 2025 negative
Sep 23, 2025 bullish
NIH Director Bhattacharya intends to shift NIH funding toward ambitious early-career researchers
“I would love to, that the, to make that happen through the sort of the power of the NIH, to allow the Max Perutz of the world, the new ones who are now, ah, ah, sitting there with great ideas, to be able to ha, to, like, try them out and change the world with …”
Sep 23, 2025 negative
Sep 23, 2025 neutral
Bhattacharya: Nobel winners' scientific ideas age half as fast as average researchers'
“So I did a study a few years back where I looked at it turns out that the age of the ideas in your published work ages by every, by one year for every year of chronological age. So my ideas get one year older every year that I age. The very best scientists fig…”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Bhattacharya: NIH eliminated paywalls for taxpayer-funded scientific research articles
“They want, they actually had a sort of a if you, a policy where if a regular person wanted to go find a scientific article they had to go, there was a paywall where they pay like 50, a hundred dollars. We got rid of that paywall for NIH-funded research.”
Sep 23, 2025 neutral
Bhattacharya: Disparity in MMR and COVID child vaccination rates reflects evidence strength
“So, the uptake of MMR in this country, the MMR vaccine is like, 95% of American parents vaccinate their kids with MMR. The evidence is, and, I think it's like, 13% of American parents vaccinated their kids for the COVID vaccine. I think that reflects the scien…”
Sep 23, 2025 negative
Sep 23, 2025 negative
Bhattacharya: Transitioning to assistant professor is biomedicine's main bottleneck
“I think the RAID problem isn't that that support for the early, I think we have a lot of portfolios pretty good on that. We could do better, but that's pretty good. The problem is, like, after you've had this career in biomedicine, how do you, like, do you, of…”
Sep 23, 2025 negative
Bhattacharya: COVID plexiglass barriers and restaurant masking lacked scientific backing
“You remember the plexiglass that was everywhere? There's still, every time there's see a plexiglass, it makes me, fills me with rage, but that's another story. And there was no science behind that, right? There was the, there was like the, you wear a mask when…”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Bhattacharya: NIH will openly admit when evidence for pandemic guidance is lacking
“God forbid there's another pandemic during my watch, and then I'm asked, okay, how should we manage is, is it right to wear a mask or something, right? And I don't, there's no good scientific evidence. I'm gonna just say that.”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Bhattacharya: Zostavax shingles vaccine reduces Alzheimer's cognitive decline risk by 20-30%
“A colleague of mine at Stanford did, has this like fantastic paper, he published, set of papers he published using an old shingles vaccine. Called Zostavax. He found that in excellent observational studies that it would, that if you had Zostavax, it reduces th…”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Bhattacharya: NIH will judge senior researchers' grant applications on mentorship quality
“And I'm gonna start to evaluate Long established investigators, because I think, I do believe they play a pretty fundamental role still but in the, in, in, in, like, how well do they advance the careers of the early career investigators that work with them, ri…”
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Bhattacharya: NIH researchers no longer need supervisory approval to publish papers
“I found out that a lot of folks at the internal investigators at the NIH, in order to publish their work, had to seek permission from their supervisors. I changed that. Like, no more permission. You, if you're an NIH researcher, you have a scientific paper, yo…”