Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u... - ThreadSky

erictopol.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/francis-collins-nih-retires.html?searchResultPosition=1

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tickerdoc05.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a horrific loss to the NIH and to our country. Thank you for sharing. And to Dr. Collins, thank you, thank you, thank you for your intelligence, years of service and immeasurable contributions to humanity.

snarkysteff.bsky.social•1 day ago

To the world.

roookii.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski had a cure for cancer. Texas sued him into oblivion.

dyepurrdhon.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Sadly, as the saying goes, "there won't be a cure for cancer while ever there are more people living off it than dying from it"

(something like that)

roookii.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Yes, clever and true.

ellelewis.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This is sad & shocking: we studied Collins & his work w/ the human genome project in my college genetics class in 1994. We are losing more and more amazing scientists & researchers that have been pillars of medical progress for decades.

tpainetheelder.bsky.social•23 hours ago

And his lab discovered the CFTr gene that led to transformative therapies in cystic fibrosis. Many people are alive today due to this work!

sejordt.bsky.social•20 hours ago

OMB Director and "I want federal workers to be in trauma" Russell Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis and is alive because of Collins' research. They think they are protected by the mayhem they cause, maybe for a time, but in the end they won't.

tpainetheelder.bsky.social•2 minutes ago

Wow! Had no idea his daughter has CF. Just adds an another incredible layer to their hypocrisy.

nonnaocean.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you Dr Collins😢

sal12.bsky.social•1 day ago

Our criminal mafia amerikkkan government is trying to murder us.

sinajae.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.mda.org/press-releases/mda-condemns-nih-funding-cuts-on-indirect-costs-calls-for-immediate-reversal

jimcashel.bsky.social•1 day ago

A giant of medical research. Thank you Francis Collins.

biscuitdrives.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am sick with worry over the destruction of NIH.
My education, my dream job, my love, is being obliterated.
Because of one man’s rage.

drkarenr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Such a loss.

byrnefields.bsky.social•1 day ago

My stepmother voted for Trump and thinks Jesus saved my father, who survived stage 4 cancer.

Infuriating.

byrnefields.bsky.social•1 day ago

And I say this knowing that Dr. Collins is a man of deep (and admirable) faith.

editr.bsky.social•1 day ago

They don’t care. They aren’t going to listen. You can’t even have a conversation with people who are convinced they are 100% right.

hazdaz.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is what our society deserves for turning a cuck like Elon into a super star, all while letting truly brilliant people who work in STEM fields get bullied by politically motivated asswipes.

blasphemousheretic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is the NIH website still active? I have not been able to access it.

jeanieeous.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It’s been down all day

drpamelasmock.bsky.social•1 day ago

Others have reported same.

webrant.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because our mass deaths concentrate their capital.

Capitalism + murder = fascism

https://bsky.app/profile/erictopol.bsky.social/post/3ljdj76v2qk2b

dianewpb.bsky.social•7 hours ago

My husband and BIL part of Human Genome Project. Brain tumors. GBM IV.
Devastating to hear this news.

purseyboy.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Vandals. Nothing less

mariamarten.bsky.social•1 day ago

*Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes and through the years that followed “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy”

totruth.bsky.social•23 hours ago

How are these MAGA FOOLS so STUPID????😡

5inthebox4fighting.bsky.social•1 day ago

Huge loss. musk, Trump and RFK Jr. should be ashamed. I fully expect a huge exodus of healthcare professionals from the NIH, FDA and CDC. Some will go to private industry but to others to countries that support groundbreaking medical research.

kwrights.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for sharing this. My son lives today because of the research done in this area. He was child patient 68 to receive car-T stem cell therapy

brucecox.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Thank you Francis for discovering the Cystic Fibrosis genes!!!

fcortes.bsky.social•21 hours ago

He’s truly a giant. Had the privilege of attending one of his seminars a while ago, so inspiring.

gabituto.bsky.social•1 day ago

The ongoing events of destruction and devastation to the science/medical community in the USA are shameful and tragic to the world, not just the USA.

harmonicsoul.bsky.social•1 day ago

Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ME/CFS feel deep hatred toward this man who not only refused to study our disease. But appointed a researcher who is a psychologizing abuser to oversee one bad study with bogus "findings" just to magnify and mock our suffering. Collins deserves no honors.

seastarsal.bsky.social•16 hours ago

If the NIH had appropriately funded research for ME/CFS during Collins’ tenure, we might have a cure or treatment for ME/CFS by now. His failure to allocate more than token funding for this brutal disease will be a lasting stain on his legacy.

orebeachgirl.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Holee crap what an incredible loss. Much respect for this incredible genius of a human being. I’m at a loss for words but worried about the health of our people going forward

prayingforrain.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cone out Friday March 7th and support science!

zkats.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Heartbreaking! ❤️‍🩹

nerdbro3000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for sharing this. What Dr. Collins says should be self-evident, yet too many people do not know or understand how important the NIH has been to America and the world.

hazdaz.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is where I have to be critical of my own STEM people. We do a shit job at explaining how important science & technology is to average people's lives. We are our own worst enemy when it comes to talking with regular folks.
...

hazdaz.bsky.social•1 day ago

...Without normies being excited about STEM, bad things happen. We are seeing it now. Funding gets cut. Research stops. Future generations decide not to get into these kinds of careers.

jeanieeous.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Because he is one to truly #StandUpForScience2025! @standupforscience.bsky.social

diztravel.bsky.social•1 day ago

We will be set back 25 years. Maybe never to recover.

mhairiforrest.bsky.social•23 hours ago

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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Did you see this? I think it is a good idea to have the FDA panel to meet even if RFK Jr cancels meetings. They actually do have the authority on their own to sit with international partners @joffirphd.bsky.social

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-02-28-trump-pandemic-bird-flu-vaccines/

whatthegardenersaw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely disgusting that it has come to this. We are doomed as a species.

kate23-ca.bsky.social•1 day ago

The end of the era! Hard to predict how long it would take to get the mighty NIH back to where it was before Trump and Musk’s carnage. Likely decades….

khadijah.bsky.social•1 day ago

Such a lovely man. This one hurts.

n83z01qbui.bsky.social•23 hours ago

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04-05-33.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Sad day

anjag-5342.bsky.social•1 day ago

Collins started with the human genome project when I was a postdoc at NIH. Amazing he was still so active and even more amazing that the current administration made him stop.

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debrota.bsky.social•1 day ago

NIH was something we as Americans could be proud of. Now it's being defunded by the Muskrat. It would certainly be karma for him to get a disease (in addition to the mental illness he already has) that NIH has been trying to develop treatments for.

whereitsat68.bsky.social•21 hours ago

So sad to lose another trusted and dedicated clinician, a familiar face that we could use right now, in a sea of uncertainty and chaos

blue-fire1.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Hero in my book

marriecarrie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for sharing this, Eric.

bumpermagnets.bsky.social•1 day ago

We won't know most of the impacts of these cuts for years to come.

blasphemousheretic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lots of unnecessary death and suffering.

mysoulhunter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for sharing this it would appear you are doing more for human kind than you did while at Cleveland Clinic. The world is lucky you are here and always help.

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kottond.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you Dr. Collin’s! We researchers all do what we do thanks to your years of NIH leadership and support!

erictopol.bsky.social•1 day ago

My recent podcast with Francis. What he has done to advance biomedicine in the US and globally is immeasurable.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/francis-collins-on-truth-science