Dr. Francis S. Collins, the famous genetic scientist who managed the 12 -year national health institutes, on Saturday that he retired from the federal institutes and government, where it issued a separation statement that presented a pointed message, if it was somewhat blocked, to the Trump administration, which launched hundreds of employees of the National Institutes of the number.
Dr. Collins wrote: “While I leave the National Institutes of Health, I want to express my gratitude and love of men and women with whom I worked alongside for many years.” “They are individuals with an extraordinary punishment and integrity, denial of selfishness, working hard, generous and emotional. They embody excellence in all ways, and deserve the utmost respect and support from all Americans.”
Dr. Collins, 74, served by three presidents: Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden Junior, and he became one of the most famous doctors in the country during the coronary virus, when he helped directing new tests, treatment and vaccines.
He did not give a reason to his retirement, and he said in a text message that he was “no interviews.”
His announcement comes a few days before the Senate confirmation session, scheduled for Wednesday, to be the candidate of President Trump, the next director of the National Health Institutes: Dr. Jay Bhatcharia of Stanford University, who expressed his contempt for Dr. Collins.
Dr. Bhatershaya is one of three authors of the Great Brington Declaration, an anti -deployment thesis signed in October 2020, at the height of the Corona virus. Email messages, which later became public, showed that Dr. Collins contacted Dr. Bhatershara and his participating authors, “Margin Epidem Scholars”.
in Interview with Fox News At that time, Dr. Collins said he stood in his statement, adding: “Hundreds of thousands of people had died if we followed this strategy.” Dr. Bhahatraraya later Attacked As one of the number of scientists who “misunderstood their authority to perform the devastating removal operations of scientists who did not agree with them.”
Dr. Collins joined the institutes in 1993, during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and gained praise for the leadership of the human genome project, a federal effort to draw a map of the human genome, a group of genetic instructions that define the human being.
He became known for his religious views: Dr. Collins, a Christian Christian, publicly sought to bridge the gap between science and Christianity, including the book “The Language of God” in 2006. I admitted publicly Some mistakes Covid.
His careful statement was presented with a strong defense of the National Health Institutes of Health and a lament for days when biomedical research had strong support from the two parties.
Dr. Collins pointed out that when he was recruited in institutes and during many years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a non -political effort from the two parties – to save an endless life, reduce human suffering and contribute significantly to the American economy.”
“The National Health Institutes are the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,” he wrote. “It is the main piston for a vital medical discovery engine is the envy of the world. However, it is not a familiar name. It must be.”
“When you hear about the patients of the survivors of cancer in the fourth stage due to immunotherapy, this depended on the research of the National Institutes of Health for many decades. When you hear about the treatment of sickle cell disease due to the liberation of Kreisper genes, this was built on many years of research supported by the National Health Institutes of Health.”
On Saturday, Dr. Collins praised at the end of 2022, in his capacity as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Collins praised on Saturday, saying that “the director of the National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases, praised Dr. Collins on Saturday, saying that he had” an unusual positive impact “on medical research.
But Mr. Trump’s allies and his secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, chanting the departure of Dr. Collins. Among them is Katie Miller, who held the position of spokeswoman for Mr. Kennedy before being appointed by Mr. Trump in the Ministry of Government, which is the efforts led by Elon Musk to reform the federal government.
“Francis Collins was an ineffective knee leader to Tony Fushi and mocked President Trump publicly,” said Mrs. Miller on social media. “@drjbhattacharya is the right leader to move forward.”
The retirement of Dr. Collins, who came into effect on Friday, follows the departure of high -level national health institutes, including Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, official No. 2 long ago in the institutes. Dr. Tabak left last month, according to a person familiar with his decision, after confronting him with the re -appointment he considered unacceptable.
Dr. Collins was appointed to lead the National Institutes of Health by Mr. Obama, and the position of director in late 2021 was seized the first year of the Biden Administration, to return to his laboratory. “Millions of people will never know that Dr. Collins saved their lives,” said Mr. Biden at the time. “Countless researchers will aspire to follow his steps.”