Emails highlight Collins’ dedication to public-private partnerships

Emails released as a result of a non-profit group’s Freedom of Information Act litigation shed light on how as NIH Director Francis Collins worked intensively to forge partnerships that brought the biopharmaceutical industry, academic and government scientists together to conduct precompetitive research to advance drug development.

President Joe Biden has tapped Collins to serve as acting science adviser and a co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)...