Head of U.S. medical research agency to step down by year-endHead of U.S. medical research agency to step down by year-endWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Collins, a genetics pioneer, was appointed as the head of NIH in 2009 by then-President Barack Obama, and he went on to serve the agency under three presidents. Francis Collins, director of U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), said on Tuesday https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/francis-collins-step-down-director-national-institutes-health he would step down from his role by the end of the year, after leading the medical research agency for 12 years. “No other NIH director has stayed in this job even close to that. Collins joined the NIH in 1993 and helped lead work that identified genes associated with Type 2 diabetes.

Source: National Post October 05, 2021 21:55 UTC