Pres­i­dent Trump asks Fran­cis Collins to stay on at the NIH, spark­ing bi­par­ti­san ap­plause

The Mark O. Hat­field Clin­i­cal Re­search Cen­ter at the Na­tion­al In­sti­tutes of Health Clin­i­cal Cen­ter. NIH File Pho­to

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump may want to slash the bud­get at the NIH, but he al­so wants Fran­cis S. Collins to stay on as its di­rec­tor.

Collins, a deeply re­spect­ed sci­en­tist who helped lead the charge in map­ping the hu­man genome, was ini­tial­ly asked to stay on at least tem­porar­i­ly af­ter Trump took of­fice. But now the ad­min­is­tra­tion wants to make that of­fi­cial.

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