MedPage Today March 2, 2025
— Former NIH director urges “respect” for embattled workers
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, a renowned geneticist and former longtime directoropens in a new tab or window of the NIH announced that he has retired, leaving an agency being upended by budget cuts and layoffsopens in a new tab or window.
Collins — a guitar-playing researcher and evangelical Christian known for finding common groundopens in a new tab or window between religion and science — gave no reason for his abrupt departure. He issued a statement Saturday that he’d been honored with a long career at an agency “rightfully called the crown jewel of the federal government for decades.”
He came to the NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome...
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