
Francis Collins, longtime head of NIH, will resign, report says
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Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is set to announce his resignation on Tuesday and will vacate his post by the end of 2020, according to reports.
NIH did not immediately respond to an after-hours email from Fox News seeking comment. The paper, citing an NIH official, reported that the agency does not have an interim director to replace Collins.
Collins led the acclaimed Human Genome Project to completion in 2003 and, in recent months, he has worked to accelerate treatments for the coronavirus. In August, he appeared on "Fox News Sunday" and stressed the highly contagious nature of the Delta variant, while acknowledging that vaccines are generally effective against it.
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