Having taken on the biggest job in biomedicine — leading the US National Institutes of Health — Francis Collins must now help his agency over a funding cliff. Meredith Wadman looks at his record so far, and his plans to cushion the fall.
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Wadman, M. Francis Collins: One year at the helm. Nature 466, 808–810 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466808a
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