National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, spoke with STAT reporter Meghana Keshavan about his background and scientific interests during the Milken Institute’s Global Conference ...

Though President-elect Donald Trump has yet to indicate who he will appoint to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health, the current Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, has indicated he ...

The first COVID-19 diagnosis in the U.S. occurred four years ago, on Jan. 20, 2020. Soon enough, we as a nation faced an existential question: What would happen to life as we knew it? When the answer ...

Francis Collins, MD, PhD, a renowned geneticist and former longtime director of the NIH announced that he has retired, leaving an agency being upended by budget cuts and layoffs. Collins -- a ...

July 9, 2009 (Staunton, Virginia) (UPDATED July 10, 2009) — People here in Francis Collins' home town had reason to be proud today, as local and national headlines announced Collins' nomination by ...

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we heard from a lot of people on this show, people who helped us try to understand what was going on and how to keep ourselves safe and how to get through a really ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ImmunoBrain, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel immunotherapies for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced the appointment of ...

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts. By Alan Burdick Dr. Collins, a renowned geneticist, ran ...

Over my 40 years as a physician-scientist, I’ve had the privilege of advising many patients facing serious medical diagnoses. I’ve seen them go through the excruciating experience of waiting for the ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And now, culture wars and hyper partisanship are overwhelming voters and sowing distrust. Our next guest believes the antidote to this is found in both ...

Francis Collins is a physician and geneticist, most widely noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his work leading the effort to sequence the human genome. Born in Virginia, Collins received ...