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Francis Collins Announces Retirement as NIH Director
Francis S. Collins, the scientist who led the Human Genome Project, has announced that he will retire from his 12-year post as leader of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the end of 2021. Appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama, he is NIH’s longest-serving director.