https://www.scmp.com/rss/523211/feed The latest news and top stories on Susan Monarez, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was confirmed in her role by the US Senate on July 29, 2025, but fired by the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr on August 27, 2025. She is challenging her firing. With a PhD in microbiology and immunology, she is the first CDC director without a medical degree. Her background includes roles at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health and the Department of Homeland... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Danielle Popov Danielle Popov DeepSeek’s founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, has been listed among the top 10 “people who shaped science in 2025” by the British journal Nature, which hailed the 40-year-old entrepreneur as a “Chinese finance whizz” whose breakthrough artificial intelligence models had stunned the world. The Nature’s 10 profile of Liang recognised the disruption caused in January by the release of DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model that showed how “the United States was not as far ahead in AI as many experts had... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335748/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-makes-cut-top-10-people-who-shaped-science-2025?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335748/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-makes-cut-top-10-people-who-shaped-science-2025?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:00:16 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jnr said on Thursday that firing a top government scientist was “absolutely necessary”, as he faced blistering criticism from Democrats urging him to resign over his steps to curb vaccines. The Senate hearing, marked by sharp exchanges that often erupted into shouting matches, came days after the ousting of Sue Monarez, the former director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her dismissal, accompanied by several high-level resignations... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324395/rfk-jnr-defends-cdc-shake-democrats-call-his-resignation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324395/rfk-jnr-defends-cdc-shake-democrats-call-his-resignation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:49:44 +0000