After a 32-year career at the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., retired from the agency, effective Feb. 28. The NIH “has been rightfully called the ‘crown jewel ...

Dr. Francis Collins has retired after 12 years leading the National Institutes of Health and decades of scientific work He praised NIH staff while hinting at concerns over Trump administration ...

After an illustrious career including 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and leading the international Human Genome Project (HGP) consortium, Francis Collins ...

WATCH: Dr. Francis Collins explores his faith and science in new book, ‘The Road to Wisdom’ He came to the NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 completed mapping the ...

He came to the NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 completed mapping the human DNA instruction book — two years ahead of schedule and $400 million under budget ...

Collins, who notified the NIH on Friday of his decision, did not specify the reasons for his departure. But his retirement comes as the world's largest public funder of biomedical research is in ...

When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by NIH,” Collins wrote. Collins, 74, was the NIH’s ...

She added that the NIH cuts “would be devastating, stopping vital biomedical research,” even as the White House claimed that their policy wouldn’t affect biomedical research at all. Collins ...

Two Republican senators, including a reliable ally of President Trump, have raised concerns about the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) decision to cut billions of dollars of “indirect ...