Dr. Francis Collins to step down as head of NIH after 12 years, remain leader of NHGRI

[essentialsaltes]

LINK

Dr. Francis Collins, the folksy, guitar-playing director of the National Institutes of Health, announced Tuesday that he plans to step down as head of the gigantic research agency by the end of the year.

"It has been an incredible privilege to lead this great agency for more than a decade," Collins, the longest serving presidentially appointed NIH director, said in a written statement Tuesday.

Collins, who has served three US presidents for more than 12 years, will continue to lead his research laboratory at the National Human Genome Research Institute, according to the announcement.

Collins has tried to bridge the growing gap between US conservatives and the scientific establishment by stressing his Christian beliefs. "I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views," he wrote in a commentary for CNN in 2007.

 

[chad kincham]

LINK

Dr. Francis Collins, the folksy, guitar-playing director of the National Institutes of Health, announced Tuesday that he plans to step down as head of the gigantic research agency by the end of the year.

"It has been an incredible privilege to lead this great agency for more than a decade," Collins, the longest serving presidentially appointed NIH director, said in a written statement Tuesday.

Collins, who has served three US presidents for more than 12 years, will continue to lead his research laboratory at the National Human Genome Research Institute, according to the announcement.

Collins has tried to bridge the growing gap between US conservatives and the scientific establishment by stressing his Christian beliefs. "I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views," he wrote in a commentary for CNN in 2007.

And he used his expertise as the scientist who headed the human genome project, to write a book called The Signature of God and DNA.

 

[Tinker Grey]

And he used his expertise as the scientist who headed the human genome project, to write a book called The Signature of God and DNA.

The Signature of God (https://www.amazon.com/Signature-God-Revised-Conclusive-Teaching/dp/0307444848) was not written by Collins.

Collins' most known book is "The Language of God". Here's everything on Amazon: Amazon.com : francis collins