Alondra Nelson (Sebastian Gollnow/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Up­dat­ed: Biden's sci­ence team sees an­oth­er mi­ni-tran­si­tion as Alon­dra Nel­son de­parts

Alon­dra Nel­son, once the in­ter­im head of the White House’s Of­fice of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Pol­i­cy, has now de­cid­ed to leave Pres­i­dent Biden’s sci­ence team af­ter about two years work­ing there. Her de­par­ture comes amid a con­cert­ed ef­fort to boost some sci­en­tif­ic knowl­edge at the of­fice.

Nel­son, who will re­turn to the In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Study in Prince­ton, NJ, ac­cord­ing to an IAS spokesper­son, stepped in­to the role along­side a reemerg­ing, post-NIH Fran­cis Collins to fill the hole left by oust­ed Er­ic Lan­der, who al­so re­cent­ly moved back to the Broad In­sti­tute, af­ter al­leged­ly bul­ly­ing his for­mer staffers at OSTP.

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