NIH’s Francis Collins: For Biden’s new research agency to succeed, it should prepare for some projects to fail
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins is ready for the National Institutes of Health to fail spectacularly.
At least, he’s ready for a few of the agency’s potential new projects to go up in flames: the high-risk, high-reward pursuits that would come out of a new research wing that President Biden has proposed. The potential for earth-shattering successes makes the proposed new agency a risk worth taking, Collins said during an interview at STAT’s Breakthrough Science Summit.
