Leaders at the National Institutes of Health launched a yearlong project Tuesday to rework the organization’s mission and structure, an exercise carried out under the shadow of the impending sweeping changes to federal public health infrastructure of the incoming Trump administration. 

NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli, appointed by President Joe Biden to rebrand the agency following the COVID-19 pandemic, told a panel of NIH institute directors chosen for an internal review process that rebuilding trust in the organization and scientific expertise is a top priority.