August 17, 2009
New NIH Director Says He Worries About Federal Support and Encouraging Young Researchers
Bethesda, Md.
Francis S. Collins took the leadership of the National Institutes of Health on Monday, telling the NIH staff his biggest fear centers on the possibility of a renewed decline in federal support for scientific research.
Dr. Collins, a physician and geneticist, assumes the role of director as the agency, the largest source of money for academic research in the United States, is experiencing a financial revival. After giving the agency five years of stagnant budgets totaling just under
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