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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