The Trump administration is “basically taking ‘move fast and break things’ and applying it to our nation’s medical research ...

Earlier this month, a Trump administration plan to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by more than 40% was leaked to the press. The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation ...

WASHINGTON -- "When you mix politics and science, you just get politics." Former NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, made that comment Tuesday at an event here sponsored by The Atlantic as he ...

According to former NIH director Francis Collins, if the U.S. loses its status as the leader in biomedical research, the consequences will be about more than health — they'll also be about ...

Dr. Francis Collins, who led the agency for 12 years under three administrations, says this aggressive downsizing could impact the health of Americans for generations to come. "When you're talking ...

"When you mix politics and science, you just get politics." -- Former NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, on lessons learned from his early experiences during the COVID pandemic. "We've gone ...

Others, including chief medical advisor under the Biden administration, Dr. Anthony Fauci and former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, have continued to back the theory that COVID jumped naturally ...

These include the Biden administration's chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins. President Trump's recent directive imposes an immediate halt on all ...

Former NIH Director and renowned geneticist Francis Collins, who stepped down from running a lab within the NIH in March, told the journal Nature that the abolition of subawards "will have tragic ...

“These decisions will have tragic consequences,” says Francis Collins, a geneticist who led the NIH, based in Bethesda, Maryland, for 12 years under three US presidents. As part of its effort ...