White House science adviser Alondra Nelson on the midterms, the cancer moonshot, and a book in the works

BOSTON — Science, according to President Joe Biden’s deputy science adviser Alondra Nelson, is more bipartisan than people think.

“I think fundamentally [that] science and technology policy is one of the few places where one can get any kind of bipartisan cooperation,” said Nelson, the deputy assistant to the president and deputy director for science and society in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaking in Boston Tuesday at the STAT Summit.

Several Republican congressional and gubernatorial candidates ran midterm campaigns disparaging the national Covid-19 response, federal health agencies, and top officials such as Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci. While Democrats defended control of the Senate, House Republicans set to take the majority have promised probes into Covid-19 spending and health officials’ work.

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