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US health head Collins steps down having led fight against cancer, COVID

US Francis Collins Sept 2020

Washington DC, US AP Dr Francis S Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, said Tuesday he is stepping down, capping a career in which he directed crucial research into the human genome and the fight against serious diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and COVID-19. Collins said he was “grateful and proud […]