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GOP leaders want Collins to stay at NIH helm

December 5, 2016 10:08 PM UTC

The Republican chairs of U.S. Senate and House committees responsible for oversight of federal biomedical research have written a letter to President-elect Donald Trump urging him to retain Francis Collins as NIH director.

Collins is "the right person, at the right time, to continue to lead the world’s premier biomedical research agency,” the letter said. It was dated Dec. 2 and signed by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related agencies; Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chair of the Energy & Commerce Committee; and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies. ...