NIH Director Francis Collins on Tony Fauci, the WHO, and running a $39 billion research agency from home

STAT April 21, 2020
Lev Facher

WASHINGTON — Francis Collins hasn’t set foot on the National Institutes of Health’s campus in Bethesda, Md., for the last month.

But the NIH director says he’s working harder than he has in his nearly five decades in science — never rising later than 5 a.m. and rarely stopping work before 10 p.m. to make sure the $39 billion biomedical research agency continues to function during the coronavirus pandemic.

Collins’ agency has already assumed a central role in the federal government’s coronavirus response. Tony Fauci, who leads the NIH’s infectious disease research institute, has become a household name across America. President Trump visited the NIH for the first time during his presidency last month. And last week, the NIH announced...

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